As Data Center Nearshoring Heats Up, Where Will Your Data Lie?
Data Center Knowledge, Wednesday, August 30,2023
Co-location providers in Mexico may provide an alternative to their US counterparts, but not all data can go out of the country.
Latin America is expected to see a boom in data center construction over the next two years, which may lead to American firms choosing co-locations in Mexico and other Latin American nations due to a lack of remaining space in American data centers. However, the issue of data sovereignty may prove thorny.
Market research firm datacenterHawk has indicated in a recent report that the Latin American data center industry is currently experiencing a surge in growth largely due to technology adoption and data center investment.