Brazil's Northeast makes cheap wind power it often cannot use. A new state study maps how to turn that wasted surplus into a home for AI data centers.
Energy
Key Facts
—The study. Brazil’s energy-planning agency EPE released work last week mapping up to 4 GW of new energy-hungry demand in the Northeast, including data centers.
—The scale. The Northeast’s peak demand is around 16 GW, so 4 GW of new load is a large addition to a single region.
—The waste. Between January and April 2026, about 79 percent of all the power Brazil was forced to throw away happened in the Northeast.
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