Brazil’s giant state-owned oil and gas company Petrobras has launched a tender aimed at enhancing its data processing and storage capabilities.
The tender has a strong emphasis on sustainability, referencing renewable energy, efficient water usage, and effective greenhouse gas management as parts of the proposed data centre operations.
The tender, which was published late last week, invites bids for data centre colocation firms operating within Brazil to host equipment for critical applications and high-performance computing systems. Consortiums are not permitted to apply.
The primary service location is Petrobras’ data centre in Rio de Janeiro.
The BNamericas news service says key requirements for bidders include operating at least one data centre in Brazil with a minimum electrical capacity of 2.5MVA, certified by either TÜV Rhineland or the Uptime Institute, and holding a contract with a power distribution company for capacity supply.
The data centre also has to be within a 500 kilometre radius of the Petrobras facility in Rio de Janeiro and located in the São Paulo metropolitan area (presumably to be near to disaster recovery services). It must also have provisions for up to two server cages, each offering at least 50 square metres.
But that’s far from all. Each data hall of the contracted company must provide at least 3.5MW of IT power and offer access and connectivity to recognised cloud services, as well as the nation’s traffic exchange infrastructure, IX.br.
Data centre infrastructure management services and fibre optic installation are also part of the contract, which will extend to the company’s administrative buildings and its headquarters in Santos. The deadline for bids is the end of March.
According to the Data Centre Dynamics website, Petrobras isplanning to invest US$78 billion in investments for 2023-2027, of which US$2.1 billion will be dedicated to its digital transformation.