ODATA’s $3 Billion Power Play in Mexico Signals a New Era for AI Infrastructure in Latin America
Querétaro is no longer an emerging market. It’s now a core node in the global AI infrastructure network and ODATA just cemented its role.
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Something big just happened in Mexico and the global data center industry should be paying close attention.
ODATA, a subsidiary of Aligned Data Centers, has officially launched the first phase of its DC QR03 campus in Querétaro, Mexico.
The numbers alone are impressive: (i) $3 billion in total investment, (ii) 275,000 square meters of hyperscale real estate, and (iii) 300 megawatts (MW) of planned IT capacity. But the true significance lies beneath the surface.
This project is more than an infrastructure build. It is a statement of intent:
That Latin America is no longer peripheral in the AI era
That Querétaro is becoming an interconnection and cloud hub
That control over power, cooling, and capacity is the new frontier in hyperscale strategy
Let’s break down what ODATA’s launch means for Mexico, for investors, and for the future of AI infrastructure.
Power Is the Foundation and ODATA Just Secured It
Querétaro has long been attractive for data centers, but power constraints have limited its growth. ODATA addressed this problem directly by executing one of the most aggressive energy infrastructure expansions in the region:
Energized 200 MW during the first phase
Expanded a 400 kV switching substation
Constructed 6.2 miles of transmission lines
Built two dedicated substations on-site
This isn’t a speculative power purchase agreement. It’s real steel-in-the-ground infrastructure, precisely what hyperscale clients are demanding as AI workloads push traditional grids to their limits.
While major U.S. markets like Northern Virginia and Oregon face mounting interconnection delays and regulatory bottlenecks, Querétaro now offers something increasingly rare: scalable, energized power for AI-era density.
Delta³ and the Cooling Arms Race
ODATA’s QR03 campus is also the Mexican debut of Delta³, Aligned Data Centers’ proprietary, award-winning cooling technology. Unlike traditional air-based systems, Delta³ is designed to:
Support 50 kilowatt per rack densities
Capture heat directly at the source
Reduce total energy consumption
Maximize space for customer deployments
Seamlessly integrate liquid cooling when required
In an era where high-performance computing and GPU clusters are redefining facility design, traditional cooling approaches are already outdated. Delta³ gives ODATA a strategic edge by offering a hybrid, AI-ready thermal envelope that scales with demand.
With these capabilities, ODATA isn’t just meeting hyperscale demand, it’s engineering to exceed it.
Querétaro’s Rise as a Digital Core
The choice of location is no coincidence. Querétaro sits at the crossroads of three intersecting trends:
Surging local and regional demand for cloud and AI services
Proximity to major U.S. interconnection points
A maturing cluster of global and regional data center players
Already home to more than 15 data centers, Querétaro is projected to host over 35 within the next few years. AWS, Google, Microsoft, KIO Networks, and others have established major footprints here.
Now, ODATA’s QR03 campus (with three anchor hyperscalers already committed) further accelerates this trajectory. As CEO Ricardo Alário puts it:
“QR03 is an established, highly connected campus and a critical interconnection hub for Querétaro and Mexico.”
This isn’t a satellite region anymore. It’s a core node in the evolving geography of global compute.
Implications for Hyperscalers and Investors
What does this mean for the wider industry?
First, hyperscalers are increasingly looking for non-traditional markets that offer:
Available power
Strategic proximity
Scalable land
Political and regulatory stability
Lower construction and operating costs
ODATA’s project checks all these boxes. In doing so, it reveals a broader shift, away from congested, saturated markets and toward regional hubs that can offer supply-chain certainty, deployment speed, and long-term cost efficiency.
Second, for infrastructure investors, the message is clear: The next $3 billion opportunities won’t be concentrated in legacy Tier 1 metros. They’ll be found in power-abundant, high-growth corridors like Querétaro, Navi Mumbai, Batam, and Riyadh.
Aligned and ODATA aren’t just betting on demand, they’re shaping it by solving for the preconditions of AI infrastructure: power, space, heat, and latency.
Building the Next Internet, Region by Region
As the world’s largest tech companies chase model size, GPU scale, and inference speeds, the infrastructure behind these ambitions is quietly shifting shape. The next phase of the internet will not be powered solely by Ashburn or Frankfurt. It will emerge from a federated network of high-performance zones built for AI.
ODATA’s DC QR03 campus is a prototype of this new model:
Engineered for AI
Pre-positioned for growth
Geographically strategic
Operationally resilient
And, critically, energized.
By building at the intersection of energy, geography, and digital demand, ODATA is setting a new benchmark for what hyperscale development in Latin America, and globally, can look like.
Conclusion: A New Era for Latin America’s Digital Core
With its $3 billion investment in Querétaro, ODATA is rewriting the playbook for hyperscale expansion. It’s no longer about simply chasing user demand or following fiber routes. It’s about controlling the inputs: energy, land, cooling, and speed-to-market.
Querétaro is no longer an emerging market. It’s a sovereign digital core—connected, powered, and ready for AI.
The infrastructure game has gone global.
And ODATA just made Mexico a serious contender.
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