President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva sanctioned this Tuesday the bill that establishes the incentives plan for the data center sector in Brazil. The text had been approved by the Chamber of Deputies in February and by the Federal Senate earlier this month.
The project was unblocked after a meeting between Lula and the Senate president, Davi Alcolumbre (União Brasil-AP), at the end of August. The proposal establishes that data center companies must contract all their electricity demand through supply contracts or self-production from renewable or low-emission sources.
The senators included the term "low emission" to allow data centers to also contract natural gas energy. The text determines that, through the program called Redata, companies in the sector may have suspension and subsequent reduction to zero tax rates of taxes such as IPI, PIS/Pasep, Cofins and Import Tax on the acquisition and importation of information and communication technology equipment destined for the installation of data centers.
