ARSAT ANNOUNCES £50M INVESTMENT INTO NEW HQ AND DATA CENTRE FACILITY

PRESS RELEASE: Argentina's government-owned communications firm Arsat is to build a new HQ and backup data centre in Bariloche in the country’s Patagonia region.

The company recently announced plans to invest $70 million (circa £50M) over the next four years for the construction of a company headquarters in the Bariloche Technological Industrial Productive Park (PITBA).

It will also develop a backup data centre for the company's current facility at the Benavídez Earth Station on the 12,000 sqm (129,100 sq ft) site and install a gateway for satellite links to increase satellite broadband connectivity.

“The data centre that we will install in Bariloche is the first of several that we will build in various parts of Argentina. This has to do with federalising content management and being able to bring resources closer to regional economies, within the framework of an increasingly digitalised economy,” said Arsat president, Matías Tombolini.

Arsat currently operates a 4,200 sqm (45,000 sq ft) Tier III certified data centre at its earth station in Benavídez, Tigre Partido, Buenos Aires. The national data centre holds data and applications for a number of local and national government bodies.

In October 2021 the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has approved a $100 million loan to improve connectivity in Argentina; the money will be used to improve digital connectivity infrastructure in remote areas and increase the capacity of the Arsat National Data Centre.

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