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Fortune: as the US turns against data centers, Brazil lures them with Redata and cheap energy

Fortune highlights Brazil as an alternative for big tech: the country is ChatGPT's third-largest market in weekly users, with 215 million messages a day according to OpenAI; energy costs less than half of the US price and almost 87% comes from renewable sources. The magazine recalls Redata, signed into law on 09/15, which cuts taxes on equipment in exchange for offering at least 10% of capacity to Brazilian customers and investing 2% in R&D in the country. Today 60% of Brazilian digital data is processed abroad. The report also cites the bottlenecks: a lack of transmission lines and the Public Prosecutor's lawsuit against a TikTok-linked data center.