{"slug": "alibaba-pushes-into-south-americas-ai-market-with-launch-of-brazil-data-centres", "title": "Alibaba pushes into South America’s AI market with launch of Brazil data centres", "summary": "Alibaba Group Holding has launched its first data centres in South America, opening two facilities in Brazil to offer local enterprises cloud infrastructure and agentic AI services. The Hangzhou-based company announced the move on Thursday, expanding its AI infrastructure buildout in emerging markets amid the US-China AI rivalry. Alibaba Cloud now operates in 106 availability zones across 31 regions, with Brazil being a key market for Latin American expansion.", "body_md": "# Alibaba pushes into South America’s AI market with launch of Brazil data centres\n\nThe Chinese tech giant is rapidly building AI infrastructure in emerging markets amid an intensifying US-China tech rivalry\n\n[Ann Cao](/author/ann-cao)in Shanghai\n\nAlibaba Group Holding has launched its first data centres in South America, as the Chinese technology giant ramps up its artificial intelligence infrastructure buildout in emerging markets amid an intensifying US-China AI rivalry.\n\nThe Hangzhou-based company announced on Thursday that its new Brazilian venture would operate two data centres offering local enterprises secure cloud infrastructure and a suite of “agentic AI services”.\n\n“Brazil is one of the world’s most dynamic digital economies and a new market central to Alibaba Cloud’s expansion in Latin America,” said Allen Guo, Alibaba Cloud’s general manager for the Latin America region and vice-president of international business.\n\n[opening of a Mexico facility](https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3299333/alibaba-opens-first-data-centre-mexico-ramping-ai-infrastructure-expansion?module=inline&pgtype=article)in early 2025. With its entry into Brazil, Alibaba Cloud now has a presence in 106 “availability zones” across 31 regions, according to the company.\n\nThe move underscores Alibaba’s rapid AI infrastructure buildout outside mainland China, as the firm seeks new growth markets amid a fierce US-China AI race. Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post.\n\nWith the new local infrastructure and its growing partner ecosystem, Alibaba Cloud aimed to power Brazilian enterprises’ AI capabilities and connect them to the company’s global network, Guo added.\n\nThe venture gives enterprises, start-ups, developers and public institutions in Brazil direct access to a full portfolio of cloud services running on local infrastructure, engineered for the low latency, resilience and data governance that mission-critical workloads require, according to the company.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/alibaba-pushes-into-south-americas-ai-market-with-launch-of-brazil-data-centres", "canonical_source": "https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3365491/alibaba-pushes-south-americas-ai-market-launch-brazil-data-centres?utm_source=rss_feed", "published_at": "2026-08-27 13:00:20+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-27 13:22:37.625118+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-infrastructure", "ai-products", "ai-policy"], "entities": ["Alibaba Group Holding", "Alibaba Cloud", "Allen Guo", "Brazil"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/alibaba-pushes-into-south-americas-ai-market-with-launch-of-brazil-data-centres", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/alibaba-pushes-into-south-americas-ai-market-with-launch-of-brazil-data-centres.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/alibaba-pushes-into-south-americas-ai-market-with-launch-of-brazil-data-centres.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/alibaba-pushes-into-south-americas-ai-market-with-launch-of-brazil-data-centres.jsonld"}}