We live in a world of data, from buying something online to running a factory. Thanks to this advance in the use of technologies and the arrival of more companies through nearshoring, Mexico can become a data center hub, says the CEO of MTP, José Sola.

In an interview with Forbes Mexico, the manager indicated that applications such as TikTok, WhatsApp, YouTube, the intensive use of ecommerce, as well as companies working daily with Microsoft or Google applications, trigger the consumption of information.

According to data from the Data Center Map platform, in the American Union there are 1,974 data centers, while Brazil has 82, while in Argentina, Chile and Mexico there are 15 in each of the countries.

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For its part, Statista estimates that revenues in the data center market in the country will reach 3.56 billion dollars in 2023; however, it expects that by 2027 this sector will reach 4,150 million dollars.

“Mexico is becoming a hub, there are other countries that, given their distance from the United States, such as Chile, have a capacity of 5 megawatts for every million inhabitants, here in Mexico we only have 1.1 megawatts for every million inhabitants”, highlights Sola.

In this sense, the CEO of MTP comments that what is pushing the data center sector is that quality and redundancy are increasingly being demanded in Mexican territory and not that it is moving to other places.

With the arrival of companies through nearshoring, private LTE networks will be key to automating their processes, since they will have thousands of sensors and much of this information will have to be processed in data centers that are closer.

“There will be data centers and what we call smaller ones, which is a bit of the bet that we are making, identified in the area where there are significant industrial parks,” says José Sola.

And it is that for a few years, one of the growth branches of the group are the data centers, says the manager, since they observe a great demand in the country, because until now the large data centers have developed more than other side of the border, that is, the United States.

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Therefore, 2 years ago MTP started with small centers distributed throughout the country, taking advantage of the fact that they already had a presence in 19 cities with telecommunications towers, in fact, they already have mini data centers in the cities of Mérida, San Luis Potosí, León y Tijuana.

In addition, they recently inaugurated their fifth data center, already larger, in Santa Fe, with a capacity of 1.1 megawatts, which required an investment of approximately 300 million pesos.

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