{"id":18057,"date":"2025-09-09T16:12:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T15:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/latam\/?p=18057"},"modified":"2026-01-05T12:13:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T12:13:03","slug":"elea-data-centers-raises-us150m-in-esg-linked-debenture-issuance-to-strengthen-capital-structure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/latam\/2025\/09\/09\/elea-data-centers-raises-us150m-in-esg-linked-debenture-issuance-to-strengthen-capital-structure\/","title":{"rendered":"Elea Data Centers raises US$150m in ESG-linked debenture issuance to strengthen capital structure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Brazil\u2019s Elea Data Centers has issued around US$150 million in sustainability-linked bonds, reinforcing its ESG commitments and supporting long-term AI infrastructure expansion.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elea Data Centers, Brazil\u2019s leading sustainable data centre platform and the first to implement large-scale artificial intelligence infrastructure in Latin America, has completed an issuance of around US$150 million (BRL 790 million) of sustainability-linked bonds (SLBs). This marks the company\u2019s third transaction of this kind and its fifth debenture issuance overall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bonds are directly tied to Elea\u2019s ESG goals, including improving its power usage effectiveness (PUE) and increasing female representation in leadership positions. The transaction was led by Bradesco BBI as lead coordinator with participation from UBS BB, BTG Pactual, Ita\u00fa BBA and, for the first time, Santander, underscoring the financial market\u2019s confidence in Elea\u2019s strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SLBs are financial instruments that link issuance conditions to corporate targets, reinforcing Elea\u2019s commitment to responsible practices and long-term sustainable growth. With this latest issuance, Elea has taken another step toward building a more efficient and sustainable capital structure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis transaction consolidates an investment cycle that began last year when we acquired our new assets in S\u00e3o Paulo. Now, with this refinancing, we are transforming the acquisition of those assets \u2014 initially funded with current liquidity \u2014 into a long-term investment supported by a more efficient and sustainable capital structure,\u201d said Alessandro Lombardi, founder and chairman of Elea Data Centers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The issuance refers to the company\u2019s current portfolio of nine data centres. Looking ahead, Elea will focus on new fundraising initiatives aimed at AI projects such as the data centre city under development, Rio AI City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In July 2024, Elea announced the acquisition of two data centres in the Greater S\u00e3o Paulo area: SPO2, located in S\u00e3o Bernardo do Campo, and SPO3, in Barueri. Both facilities are strategically positioned near submarine cable landing points and robust energy supply, aligning with Elea\u2019s mission to deliver high-performance IT infrastructure for corporate clients and global technology companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazil\u2019s Elea Data Centers has issued around US$150 million in sustainability-linked bonds, reinforcing its ESG commitments and supporting long-term AI infrastructure expansion. Elea Data Centers, Brazil\u2019s leading sustainable data centre platform and the first to implement large-scale artificial intelligence infrastructure in Latin America, has completed an issuance of around US$150 million (BRL 790 million) of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":18058,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4674,5544,30,76,2237,5087,5785,3],"tags":[6438,6436,6437,6442,3933,6434,6441,6440,6439,6435,6433],"class_list":["post-18057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ai","category-data-centers","category-data-centres","category-energy","category-latam","category-tech-investments","category-technology","category-top-stories","tag-ai-infrastructure-latin-america","tag-bradesco-bbi","tag-brazil-data-centers","tag-data-center-expansion-brazil","tag-elea-data-centers","tag-esg-linked-bonds","tag-female-leadership-esg","tag-power-usage-effectiveness","tag-rio-ai-city","tag-santander-brazil","tag-sustainability-linked-bonds"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/latam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/latam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/latam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/latam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/latam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/latam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18059,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/latam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18057\/revisions\/18059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/latam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/latam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/latam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/latam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}