The future is modular. Modular is the future.

Leader in the development and manufacture of Modular Data Centers in Latin America, Modular enables and drives the technology market by developing intelligent, flexible, and high-quality solutions.

The future becomes increasingly feasible, safe, and near.

Modular is a platform for developing and producing Modular Data Centers and modular components for Data Centers that was born a leader in Latin America, combining a strategic vision of the technology market with a proven entrepreneurial and innovation capacity.

Modular designs and manufactures intelligent structures. It is rigid in complying with the standards’ requirements but flexible to its customers’ needs, aligning its solutions to the challenges of the market. The modules leave the factory tested, commissioned, and TIA-942 Ready certified, reducing the risk of field installation, optimizing deployment time, and ensuring the quality that certification brings.

Our products enable a future of possibilities with Modular support by a quality digital infrastructure fully prepared to support mission-critical environments.

Modular is innovative.

We think, build, and apply state-of -the-art processes and technology in everything we develop.

Modular is solid.

With factories that serve all of Latin America and a complete portfolio for the most varied needs of our customers, we supply indoor or outdoor demands, offering smart prefabricated modular structures, which leave our factories ready and commissioned.

Modular is experienced.

Formed by a group of investors, partners, and executives with decades of experience in the technology, engineering, aerospace, financial, and manufacturing industries, we were founded by the acquisition and incorporation of the engineering, manufacturing, and intellectual property assets of a former market leader in the Brazilian market.

Modular is modern.

We have developed our families of “Fast Forward” and “Good To Go” supporting demands from 2 to 60 racks and 10kW to 600kW per module to meet market needs using innovative and cuttingedge infrastructure technology.

A late market entrance, spurring new growth mindset

Interestingly, Peigo explains that one of the principal reasons behind Scala’s trademark approach to growth is the fact that the provider came to the data centre market relatively late in the game.

“When we arrived, our competitors were already established, with a fragmented capacity distributed among the LATAM countries. So, we decided to invest not in shared facilities, but in single tenant facilities foreseeing an expansion in the demand similar to what has happened in other more developed markets,” Peigo explains.

“Instead of starting by building one data centre and sharing space in that facility for

Marcos Peigo

TITLE: CO-FOUNDER & CEO

COMPANY: SCALA DATA CENTERS

LOCATION: SÃO PAULO customer A, B, C and D until 70-80% of that data centre is already occupied before launching a new one, we started another approach, which was specifically designed to meet the needs of hyperscale customers. We decided to get the same four customers, and create one building for customer A, one building for customer B, one building for customer C, and one building for customer D, with reserved space for them to grow.”

Marcos Peigo is the Co-Founder and CEO of Scala Data Centers. As a seasoned leader, he provides critical insights into the Latin American data centre and IT markets, leveraging over 25 years of experience working with technology and infrastructure-focused firms in Brazil and Latin America.

Marcos studied Electrical Engineering and Economics at Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo. In 2023, Marcos was the only Latin American executive nominated by the Pacific Telecommunications Council (PTC) for the Outstanding C-Level Executive Award and, in 2022, Marcos was awarded the title of Industry Leader by DatacenterDynamics.

In the LATAM market, besides the advance of digital transformation, key drivers of growth here are the power restrictions that are currently being experienced in North America that used to serve our region, data sovereignty regulations and currency instability concerns. Consequently, catering

“When they sign an agreement with us, our customers have secured an avenue to grow for decades, and we assume a strong long-term expansion capacity commitment, while giving them the comfort of growing in the same location, with a trusted partner” for this demand then shifts to the Latin American region.

In recent years, this long-standing trend was coupled with the shift brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, during which Scala experienced a dramatic increase in demand, fuelled by the world’s pivot to cloud technologies and companies’ rising reliance on data.

“When the demand spiked, these customers triggered the reserved space and asked for more reservations within the same campuses. So, we placed our bets on building at scale, dedicating spaces for our customers for significant growth – much bigger than that which they had experienced in Latin America in the previous years – all within large, customised, and dedicated buildings,” Peigo outlines.

“When they sign an agreement with us, our customers have secured an avenue to grow for decades. We assume a strong long-term expansion capacity commitment while giving them the comfort of growing in the same location with a trusted partner obsessed with their success.”

From there, the average size of Scala’s tickets jumped from 2MW to 8MW, then 8MW to 20MW, and so on, as Scala and its customers alike saw returns from their investments in these large deployments.