Google Cloud will double its infrastructure capacity in Brazil between 2026 and 2030, matching the entire build-out the company completed in the country between 2017 and 2026. Eduardo López, Google Cloud's president for Latin America, announced the plan on Thursday, September 24, at the Google Cloud Summit Brazil 2026 in São Paulo.

Google launched its Brazilian cloud region in São Paulo in 2017. It is one of two regions the company operates in South America, alongside one in Chile that opened in 2021. Google Cloud's global CEO, Thomas Kurian, told the Summit's opening that the company currently runs two cloud regions in Brazil, each with three isolated data centers — six in total.

What will actually double?

López declined to disclose investment figures. He asked journalists at the press conference not to make estimates, but said a comparison between the two periods — 2017–2026 versus 2026–2030 — gives an idea of the scale of planned spending.

When pressed on whether doubling infrastructure means new data centers or expanded facilities, López drew a clear line: the company measures product and capacity, not physical space. Advances in hardware allow Google to deliver much more compute per square meter.

What doubles is processing and service delivery capacity in Brazil. That could mean expanding current facilities or building new ones, depending on demand. The facilities follow high-availability architectures with separate zones, and with increasingly powerful processors, López argued, the number of racks or buildings is no longer the primary indicator of scale.

On the prospect of a large new data center by 2030, López said investment planning is always tied to demand and that the announced doubling reflects confidence in growth of platform use by Brazilian companies. He also pointed to ReData, a special tax regime recently enacted for data centers, as significantly reducing operating costs — especially when purchasing components.

New hardware lands in São Paulo

Milena Leal, Google Cloud's country manager in Brazil, announced that G4 virtual machines equipped with Nvidia GPUs are now available in the São Paulo region. She said the resources offer high performance and low latency, enabling Brazilian companies to run their most computationally intensive models locally.

At a separate press conference during the event, Flávio Franco, director of Forward Deployed Engineering at Google Cloud for Latin America, noted that the company brought sixth-generation TPUs to Brazil at last year's Summit. This year it expands that investment with the arrival of Nvidia RTX Blackwell GPUs at the Brazilian data center. Franco said computing capacity will double in both traditional infrastructure and AI.

Google said it has optimized chips, data centers, and its network, and passes these efficiencies on to customers. The company claims the new TPU family delivers three times the computational performance during training and an 80 percent better price-performance ratio for inference.

One Brazilian customer illustrates the local use case: Axia Energia runs advanced weather modeling on TPU clusters, predicts severe weather events up to ten days in advance, and has reduced service interruptions for millions of customers year over year.

Why the investment is happening now

Leal framed the expansion as a response to customer demand and market evolution. The plan, she said, reinforces Google's long-term commitment to the Brazilian market, keeps pace with rapid adoption of Gemini Enterprise and growing AI demand, and will expand local storage capacity and high-performance AI processing.

Brazil is one of the most important countries in Latin America for technology solutions, according to Leal, and the company observes rapid adoption not only of AI but also of security and infrastructure — a trend underpinning its growth projections. Executives added that, for the first time in the industry's history, all sectors — public sector, education, retail, finance, manufacturing — are advancing at a similar pace in technology adoption.

What about Fortaleza and energy?

Asked about a possible new Google cable in Fortaleza, Brazil's main submarine cable hub, and about data center investments in Ceará's capital, López explained that cable decisions are made globally and that the regional operation's role is to demonstrate demand. Google keeps its data centers close to the landing points of its own cables — currently concentrated in São Paulo — because relying on other connections would introduce latency. López said he has visited Fortaleza, spoken with local companies, and is exploring alternatives for the future.

On environmental impact, Milton Larsen Burgese, director of the public sector for Latin America, said Google Cloud operates at energy efficiency levels above the market average, from chips to infrastructure lifecycle management, achieving greater capacity per unit of energy. The Brazil region runs on clean energy 90 percent of the time, letting customers running local workloads benefit from the national energy mix. The company publishes this data, he added.

According to López, the data center investment spans Google's entire portfolio, with particular benefit for the public sector and companies in regulated industries.