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Petrobras Awards R$2.3 Billion, 17-Year Supercomputer Hosting Deal to Elea

The São Bernardo do Campo site will process exploration workloads using liquid cooling powered by renewable energy.

Overview

  • Elea won a competitive procurement and signed a R$2.3 billion, 17-year agreement to host Petrobras’ supercomputers.
  • The facility in São Bernardo do Campo is nearly ready, with launch targeted for the first half of 2026 using liquid cooling.
  • Project specifications call for roughly 30 MVA of capacity with electricity sourced from renewables.
  • Elea says Petrobras will be the first company in Brazil to deploy liquid cooling in a data center.
  • The company frames the deal as an early beneficiary of the new Redata measure and points to its separate Rio AI City project targeting up to 3.2 GW.