Overview
- Work at the Data Center Pecém has moved into visible assembly with pre‑molded halls in place and more than 700 workers on site while developer Omnia says construction is on schedule toward phased handover to ByteDance in the second half of 2027.
- The facility will occupy about 68 hectares and is planned for roughly 200 MW of IT capacity and about 300 MW of total site power, with ByteDance contracted to buy and operate the server equipment.
- Omnia and Casa dos Ventos have signed a reported multi‑billion‑reais agreement for wind parks to supply the roughly 300 MW the campus needs, and logistics plans call for cargo flights from China to bring servers starting in 2027.
- The Ministério Público Federal and the Defensoria Pública da União formally recommended that the project’s Relatório Ambiental Simplificado be expanded, citing insufficient assessment of cumulative impacts and asking Semace for measures including community and indigenous consultation, hydrogeological monitoring, fuel‑storage risk plans, noise and electronic‑waste controls, and electrical‑system safeguards with monthly ONS reporting.
- Local communities rely mainly on artesian wells in a drought‑prone region, so agencies warn that large groundwater withdrawals and the site’s diesel generators and heavy grid demand could lower the water table, strain infrastructure and affect livelihoods even as the project promises thousands of construction jobs and hundreds of operational posts.