Microsoft began constructing the Northwest Hortolândia datacenter in January 2024. The datacenter construction site is located at Av. Thereza Ana Cecon Breda and R. Uirapuru in Hortolândia, State of São Paulo.

Why datacenters are needed

Datacenters provide the physical infrastructure for the technology we depend on at work and in our personal lives. Whenever you open an app on your phone, join a virtual classroom or meeting, snap and save photos, or play a game with your friends online, you are using a datacenter. Local businesses, government, hospitals, and schools rely on datacenters every day to deliver goods and services to you.

Construction update 5 June, 2025

The general contractor Racional carries out most of its activities from Monday to Saturday, from 7am to 7pm, occasionally working on Sundays on internal activities with less impact or until 10pm during the week. Racional is currently engaged in the following activities:

• Site preparation: under development, expected to be completed in the first half of 2025.
• Walls raised and covered: mostly completed.
• Internal installations: under development, expected to be completed in the second half of 2025.
• Substation: under development, expected to be completed in the first half of 2025.
• Definitive gatehouse: expected to be completed in the first half of 2025.
• Offsite activities: under development, expected to be completed in the second half of 2025.

Construction timeline

Datacenter construction began in January 2024 and is estimated to be complete by the beginning of March 2026. The general contractor Racional is permitted to work Monday through Saturday 7:30am – 5pm and is currently engaged in the following activities:

• Earthworks, from January 2024 to April 2024
• Concrete work to lay the building foundation and installation of metal structure and walls, from February 2024 to late 2024

Additionally, the following work is scheduled to begin later this year:

• Substation construction, from April 2024 to mid 2025
• Wiring and systems installation, from October 2024 to late 2025

Together with our general contractor Racional, we will keep neighbors informed in advance of construction work.

Staying connected

We will keep the community up to date via our Brazil: Greater Campinas page in our Microsoft in Your Community blog.

For daily operational questions, you can also reach out to the contractor at Onias.Silva@racional.com .