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Omnia and Casa dos Ventos sign $2bn power deal anchoring TikTok’s Brazil data centre

The Pátria-controlled data-centre developer is buying renewable power from Brazil’s largest independent generator to underwrite a 200 MW campus in Pecém, the first ByteDance facility in Latin America.

Omnia, the Pátria Investimentos-backed data-centre developer, has signed a roughly $2bn energy-supply agreement with Casa dos Ventos, Brazil’s largest independent renewable-power generator, according to Reuters.

The contract anchors the power side of a 200 MW data centre going up in the Pecém port complex in Ceará, the facility that will become ByteDance’s first dedicated infrastructure footprint in Latin America.

The energy deal is the substantive Monday detail inside a project whose architecture had been publicly outlined since November 2025. The combined investment now sits at roughly $9.8bn across three principals. ByteDance is committing $7-8bn for IT equipment that will fill the racks.

Omnia, the Pátria-controlled platform that took on the developer role after Brazilian antitrust regulator CADE approved its control of...

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