Davi Carvalho Mota coverage in Infrastructure Investor: Will AI be the next Brazilian export?

Davi Carvalho Mota, Managing Director, Long Life Infrastructure at Actis, spoke with Justin McGown at Infrastructure Investor for a feature piece on Brazil’s data center and AI potential. Davi comments about how crucial Brazil’s efforts to modernise and expand its electricity grid have been for enabling the growth of the data center sector in the country. Click here for the full article online, here for the magazine piece and read on below for a snapshot of Davi’s commentary.

Davi Carvalho Mota, Managing Director, Long Life Infrastructure at Actis, commented:

“We first started to look at the transmission line space in Brazil roughly four to five years ago. The things that caught our attention are that it is quite a sizeable sector – we’re talking about over 200,000km of existing grid networks – and it’s quite compelling from a growth perspective when we look at the installed base. The regulatory framework was established in the late 90s. Fast-forward 25-plus years and we’ve seen that almost 100 percent – with a few exceptions – of the transmission network is in the hands of private capital. So, there is a long track record in this sector in attracting and dealing with private capital.”

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