In 2025 we received several inquiries about opportunities related to data centers being built in Mexico. Mexico’s data center growth heading into 2026 is hyperscale, attending both the US and Mexican markets for cloud services, and it moves in steps with supplementation of energy infrastructure. Development activity is heavily concentrated in Queretaro and the adjacent Bajio region, where data center design often contemplates a degree of energy self-supply, and timelines are increasingly governed by power delivery, substation construction, and grid interconnection readiness. NC exporters in electricity management may therefore have some interesting opportunities.
Founding associates of the Mexican data center association MEXDC are Ascenty, Odata, Equinix, Layer 9, DCD, Kio, and Scala. Other members are Alestra, CloudHQ, EdgeNet, HostDime, Megacable, and MTP, and a more complete list including construction partners can be viewed here.
Data Centers Under Construction
New facilities are being designed around AI-ready specifications, including higher-density racks, redundant power paths, large-scale UPS systems, and extensive backup generation. Developers are pairing campuses with dedicated substations, semi-private transmission upgrades, and multi-carrier fiber routes to manage congestion and interconnection risk. Cooling strategies increasingly emphasize air-cooled or hybrid designs. That is due to water constraints, but also the need to limit incremental electrical load in already stressed basins.
Hyperscaler-owned clouds (operator-built)
These are not colocation campuses but direct hyperscaler infrastructure. The telecom and cloud companies own the centers. As a result, not much information about them is disclosed. Like most locales in the US, there is no law obligating transparency around their construction.
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Telmex – new data center (northeaster Mexico)
Telmex has publicly stated it will bring a new data center online in 2026. While not branded as hyperscale, Telmex facilities often underpin cloud regions, edge aggregation, and national-scale workloads. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in Mexico operates a cloud region in a partnership with Telmex. -
Nuevo Leon AI / HPC project (AI-GDC + Cipre Holding)
Announced as a large AI and high-performance computing facility with phased development starting in 2026. Marketed around GPU-intensive workloads rather than general colocation, placing it adjacent to hyperscale AI infrastructure even if not a classic cloud campus. - Amazon Web Services – Mexico (Central) Region, Queretaro
Multi-availability-zone cloud region launched in 2025. Built as hyperscale infrastructure with redundancy across multiple facilities. Expansion within the region is ongoing through 2026 as capacity is added behind the initial launch. -
Google Cloud – Mexico Cloud Region, Queretaro
Announced in late 2024 and operational entering 2025. Structured as a full cloud region rather than a single facility, with additional capacity added incrementally as demand and power availability allow. -
Microsoft – Azure Mexico Region (Queretaro area)
Microsoft’s hyperscale cloud region in Mexico, designed for enterprise, government, and regional workloads. As with other Azure regions, capacity is added in phases rather than as a single disclosed campus.
Large colocation / campus developers
- CloudHQ has outlined a six–data center campus in Queretaro tied to a multi-year, multi-billion-dollar investment, with private and grid-adjacent power infrastructure embedded directly into the site plan.
- ODATA (Aligned Data Centers) continues phased development of its QR03 campus, publicly described as reaching up to 300 MW of IT capacity across multiple buildings.
- Ascenty (Digital Realty / Brookfield) – Queretaro campus
Ascenty has two operational data centers in Queretaro and a third facility publicly described as “in development.” The campus model is explicitly hyperscale-oriented, with phased build-out dependent on power availability and anchor tenants. Digital Realty’s involvement in Mexico is partly through Ascenty, but it also appears in operator listings tied to Queretaro’s hyperscale corridor, reinforcing the institutional investor and hyperscale colocation layer. -
Equinix – Mexico (including Queretaro)
Equinix operates carrier-neutral facilities in Mexico and is positioning them to support hyperscale adjacency, interconnection, and enterprise-to-cloud architectures.
Energy constraints
An overview of Mexico’s energy context in English can be read here. Energy availability is the main planning variable shaping Mexico’s data center pipeline in 2026. In Queretaro and surrounding regions, grid capacity and interconnection timing have overtaken real estate considerations as the primary bottleneck. Developers are sequencing projects around confirmed power delivery milestones, which stretches multi-phase campuses over longer timelines and front-loads capital into electrical infrastructure well before meaningful IT load is energized. As a result, firm go-live dates are often replaced by phased commissioning schedules tied explicitly to power readiness.
This environment has normalized a degree of power self-reliance at the project level. Dedicated or semi-dedicated substations, long-term private power purchase agreements, and substantial on-site backup generation are now standard assumptions in hyperscale projects. In some cases, diesel or gas generation is used not only for resilience but as a temporary bridge while grid upgrades are completed. While this approach reduces execution risk for individual campuses, it introduces additional complexity around fuel logistics, emissions compliance, operating costs, and contract structure—factors that increasingly influence tenant selection and pricing models.
Energy constraints are also reshaping design decisions. Although facilities are marketed as AI-capable, many projects prioritize electrical redundancy, modular build-out, and phased load growth over extreme rack density. The limiting factor is often sustained power delivery rather than cooling capacity alone. As a result, developers favor architectures that allow IT load to ramp gradually as additional power becomes available, rather than committing to full campus utilization at launch.
Outside the Queretaro core, 2026 activity is less significantl. We cite the Telmex “northeastern” data center and the new center in Nuevo Leon, an AI/high-performance facility positioned around GPU-intensive workloads. These are geographic outliers– growth is focused in the Queretaro-Bajio region northwest of Mexico City.
As one last point, this growth comes as a way to not only give Mexico local data centers (where it has previously directed traffic through US locations), but it also is seen as a strategic extension of North American hyperscale capacity. Mexican data center growth in that sense is North American. It is driven by US cloud demand and regional architecture decisions as well as Mexican, while shaped by Mexico domestic energy availability.