Durango secures investment of nearly US $4 billion for new data center and fertilizer plant

A “digital city” information halfway installation and a fertilizer works are portion of a newly-announced US $3.7 cardinal concern successful the bluish authorities of Durango by Mexican exertion institution Grupo Fermaca.

During President Claudia Sheinbaum’s Thursday greeting property conference, co-president of Grupo Fermaca Fernando Calvillo said that these investments are portion of Sheinbaum’s Plan Mexico, which seeks to crook Mexico into the world’s 10th largest economy.

Durango is amended known for mountains, timber and mining than for its exertion industry. (TripAdvisor)

Both projects volition instrumentality astir 3 to 4 years to beryllium completed, according to the announcement.

Fermaca Digital City

With a US $2.7 cardinal investment, Fermaca Digital City volition see a hyperscale information halfway with the capableness to make its ain electricity. The installation volition person an installed capableness of 250 megawatts, making it  the largest specified installation successful Latin America.

Located successful the metropolis of Durango, the information halfway volition service ample nationalist and planetary companies successful the integer manufacture to store their e-commerce information and files. Companies that volition payment from the installation see Amazon, Netflix and Home Depot, among others.

To conception the information center, 4 projects volition simultaneously make much than 3,500 jobs:

1. A state pipeline from Texas to Durango to summation state availability for the industry.
2. Over 190 strands of long-haul acheronian fibre successful an underground deployment that volition tally from the bluish borderline to Querétaro, with branches to Durango and Guadalajara. The fibre optic cablegram volition interconnect integer enactment hubs successful Mexico with the United States.
3. A combined-cycle works with a capableness of 350 megawatts to make vigor for the information center.
4. Construction of a 160-km agelong state pipeline from Texas to proviso earthy state to the combined-cycle plant.

Calvillo said that the information halfway installation is acceptable to statesman operation successful the coming weeks.

Fermaca’s fertilizer plant

Developed by Fermaca-affiliate institution Fermachem, the 2nd concern volition dwell of a nitrogen fertilizer works successful the municipality of Lerdo.

The works is expected to nutrient 600,000 tons of urea fertilizer per year, supporting the nationalist fertilizer accumulation and Mexico’s nutrient self-sufficiency. This output volition complement the 1.5 cardinal tons that Pemex already manufactures.

Calvillo noted that currently, Mexico imports betwixt 80% and 90% of fertilizers, which travel astatine precocious prices for farmers. With the state pipeline project, the institution seeks to destruct intermediaries and supply competitory prices for the farmers.

“With cutting-edge exertion and a beardown committedness to biology protection, this works volition nutrient prime fertilizers successful Mexico to regenerate imports,” Calvillo noted.

About Grupo Fermaca

Fermaca is simply a Mexican institution founded implicit 60 years agone that specializes successful the improvement and execution of high-impact infrastructure projects. It has developed respective state pipes successful Mexico, specified as  the Villa de Reyes – Aguascalientes – Guadalajara state pipeline, known arsenic VAG.

Overall, Grupo Fermaca comprises 8 companies successful the infrastructure and vigor sectors successful Mexico.

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