Colocation Services in Chile

Chile operates the most mature and internationally recognised colocation market on the Pacific coast of South America. PeeringDB data as of April 2026 records 51 active colocation facilities across Chile. Santiago dominates with 36 facilities, representing over 70% of national capacity. Secondary locations include Las Condes (2 facilities), Viña del Mar (2), Concepción (1), Temuco (1), Puerto Montt (1), and Punta Arenas (1), among others. The most connected single facility in Chile is Cirion Technologies SAN1, located at Santa Marta de Huechuraba 6951 in Santiago, with 67 networks and 5 IX connections. Ascenty SCL02 in Quilicura is the second most connected facility with 30 networks and 2 IX connections, followed by Ascenty SCL01 on the same Quilicura campus at 22 networks. IFX Santiago and Equinix ST1/ST2 round out the top five. Chile's primary internet exchange, PIT Chile (PIT Santiago), has 154 member networks distributed across 13 facilities, making it the clear connectivity anchor for the country. Chile IX by PIT.net launched in August 2025 and has already attracted 15 member networks across 3 Santiago facilities, reflecting continued market growth. Nine internet exchanges operate in Chile in total, spanning Santiago, Concepción, Temuco, Valdivia, and Punta Arenas.

Chile's colocation demand rests on four structural advantages: seismic resilience standards, renewable energy access, the country's role as South America's Pacific gateway, and strong political and economic stability relative to the rest of Latin America. On seismic resilience, Chile is one of the most seismically active countries in the world. This has driven investment in building standards that exceed those of most other Latin American markets. Chilean datacenter operators design to seismic isolation and energy dissipation requirements that support operational continuity through events that would disable unreinforced buildings elsewhere. For enterprises that must maintain uptime through seismic events, Chile's regulatory construction environment is an operationally meaningful differentiator. On renewable energy, Chile leads South America in installed solar capacity. The Norte Grande region, encompassing the Atacama Desert, generates some of the highest solar irradiance on Earth. For enterprises with sustainability mandates requiring renewable energy certificates for colocation, Chile offers credible green sourcing options at competitive tariffs. On hyperscaler validation, Google opened a datacenter in Quilicura with a USD 140 million initial investment. Microsoft launched an Azure region in Chile in 2023. AWS has announced a Santiago region. These three hyperscaler investments confirm Santiago as a Tier 2 LATAM infrastructure hub. Enterprises sourcing colocation in Santiago are making a bet on the same geography that three of the world's largest technology companies have validated independently. On Pacific gateway connectivity, Chile is the landing point for submarine cable systems connecting South America to North America and to Asia-Pacific. For enterprises requiring low-latency connectivity from a South American colocation facility to both North America and the Asia-Pacific region, Santiago is the strongest single-site option in the region.

Santiago is Chile's dominant colocation hub with 36 of the country's 51 PeeringDB-registered facilities. The Quilicura district in the northwest of the city has emerged as the primary data center cluster, hosting the Ascenty SCL01 and SCL02 campuses (combined 52 networks), EdgeConneX EDCSCL01, ODATA DC ST01, and the site of Google's USD 140M hyperscale investment. Additional major facilities sit across the city in Huechuraba (Cirion SAN1 and EdgeUno SCL1), central Santiago (GTD Moneda, Entel Torre Entel, Equinix ST3), and Las Condes. City-level coverage is at /en/colocation/chile/santiago/. Valparaiso holds 1 facility (Telxius Valparaiso DC), serving the port city and its naval infrastructure sector. Valparaiso functions as a secondary connectivity site for some Santiago enterprises, with submarine cable landing infrastructure supplementing the capital's terrestrial fibre. Coverage at /en/colocation/chile/valparaiso/. Concepción holds 1 facility with a regional PIT Chile IX node (PIT Concepción, 7 member networks), serving Chile's second-largest city and its industrial and university sector. Temuco has 1 facility with a PIT Temuco node (4 networks). Punta Arenas, Chile's southernmost city, hosts PatagoniaIX, launched December 2024 with 7 member networks.

Cirion Technologies operates SAN1 at Santa Marta de Huechuraba 6951 in Santiago, the single most connected colocation facility in Chile with 67 networks and 5 IX connections. Cirion Technologies is the spinoff of Lumen Technologies' Latin American operations, bringing carrier-grade infrastructure and a large existing enterprise customer base to the Chilean market. Ascenty operates two campuses in Quilicura (SCL01 and SCL02), both at Guacolda 2100. Their combined network count of 52 (22 at SCL01, 30 at SCL02) makes the Quilicura campus the highest-density colocation site in Santiago by total networks. Ascenty focuses on hyperscale and large enterprise colocation across Latin America. Equinix operates four Santiago facilities: ST1/ST2 (Avenida los Vientos 20239, 9 networks, 2 IX), ST3 (central Santiago, 3 networks), and ST4 (San Pedro, 2 networks). Equinix's global carrier ecosystem and cloud on-ramp services for AWS, Azure, and GCP make ST1/ST2 the standard choice for enterprises requiring direct cloud connectivity from Chile. Equinix SmartHands covers only Equinix buildings. GTD Internet (Grupo de Telecomunicaciones Digitales) operates four facilities: GTD Moneda (12 networks), GTD Lidice I (2 networks), GTD Lidice II (3 networks), and GTD Panamericana (0 networks but a large physical campus). GTD is the dominant local telecommunications provider and its Panamericana facility in Pudahuel is one of Santiago's largest carrier-neutral buildings. Entel operates two facilities: CNT Torre Entel on Avenida Libertador Bernardo O'Higgins (10 networks, 2 IX) and Amunategui (1 network). Entel also operates PIT Entel, a private IX at those same facilities with 3 member networks. Additional significant operators include IFX Networks (IFX Santiago, 22 networks, PIT Chile anchor facility at El Bosque Sur 90), EdgeUno (SCL1 in Huechuraba, 10 networks), PowerHost (Santiago, 9 networks), EdgeConneX (EDCSCL01, 7 networks), Grupo ZGH (two facilities: La Florida 14 networks, Colina 7 networks), and SONDA (three facilities: Quilicura, Kudos, Teatinos).

RebootMonkey (EDCS OÜ, Estonia) is a third-party datacenter services provider operating across 250+ cities in 190 countries. RebootMonkey does not own or operate colocation facilities. It provides physical datacenter services inside other companies' facilities, under its own SLA, entirely independent of any facility operator. In Chile, RebootMonkey can dispatch certified field engineers to Cirion SAN1, Ascenty SCL01, Ascenty SCL02, IFX Santiago, Equinix ST1/ST2, GTD Moneda, Entel Torre Entel, and all other PeeringDB-registered colocation buildings in Santiago and beyond. All work is delivered under a single contract with unified SLA terms, covering 11 physical services. This cross-facility coverage is the core operational advantage over facility-specific in-house support teams: Equinix SmartHands covers only Equinix buildings, GTD technical staff cover only GTD facilities, and no facility operator's in-house team can work across the full 51-facility Chilean estate. The 24/7 NOC provides P1 issue detection within 5 minutes and client notification within 15 minutes. The 4-hour on-site resolution SLA applies for P1 incidents across covered Chilean facilities. The 8-factor dispatch algorithm selects engineers by location proximity (30% weight), facility access credentials (20%), and skill match against task requirements (15%), along with hardware expertise, client relationship history, language match, security clearance level, and cost efficiency. Every task produces documented photographic evidence under the chain-of-proof protocol. Rack and Stack tasks require a minimum of 5 photos; Smart Hands tasks require 3 photos. Post-seismic hardware inspection is available as a defined service, covering systematic rack-level equipment checks following seismic events. For Chilean clients with EU data flows or EU parent companies, EDCS OÜ's Estonian registration means data processing agreements already meet GDPR standard. No separate EU compliance layer is required, which is relevant for financial sector clients regulated by CMF and subject to cross-border data transfer obligations.

Chile's IX infrastructure is unusually developed for a market of its size, reflecting the country's early investment in neutral peering infrastructure. Nine internet exchanges are active across the country as of April 2026. PIT Chile (PIT Santiago) is the dominant IX with 154 member networks across 13 facilities. PIT Chile also operates regional nodes: PIT Concepción (7 networks) in Chile's second city and PIT Temuco (4 networks) in the Araucanía region. The PIT Chile network spans three cities under the pitchile.cl operator. SCL-IX Chile (Santiago Internet Exchange) operates across 4 Santiago facilities including its main site at Antonia Lopez de Bello 114 and three MMR extensions. SCL-IX has 1 registered member network but provides an independent peering fabric distinct from PIT Chile. Chile IX by PIT.net launched in August 2025 and is already at 15 member networks across 3 Santiago facilities, making it the fastest-growing new IX in the country. BGP.Exchange operates two community IXPs: BGPIX-SCL in Santiago (11 networks) and BGPIX-ZAL in Valdivia (5 networks). PatagoniaIX in Punta Arenas (7 networks) launched in December 2024 and serves the Magallanes region at Chile's southern tip. For enterprises colocating in Santiago, PIT Chile's 154-network membership makes it the primary consideration for local traffic peering. The Cirion SAN1 facility holds 5 IX connections, the highest IX connectivity count of any Chilean facility, and is the recommended anchor site for networks requiring maximum peering optionality.

Chile's current data protection framework is Law 19.628 on Personal Data Protection, enacted in 1999. As of 2026, a comprehensive reform bill is progressing through the Chilean legislature, designed to align Chile's framework with GDPR standards and create a new independent supervisory authority for private sector data handling. For enterprises colocating in Chile today, Law 19.628 applies. Its requirements around consent and cross-border data transfers are less prescriptive than GDPR, but the pending reform will tighten obligations materially. Enterprises with EU operations and Chilean colocation footprints should already apply GDPR-equivalent standards to their Chilean data processing in anticipation of the reform. For financial services clients, Chile's CMF (Comisión para el Mercado Financiero) regulates technology and data security for licensed financial institutions. CMF regulations impose requirements on financial institutions' IT infrastructure, including security standards for outsourced or colocated services. Physical access to colocated equipment must be auditable under CMF frameworks. RebootMonkey's physical services do not involve access to customer data in transit or at rest. Data destruction services are performed with chain-of-proof photographic documentation. EDCS OÜ, as an EU-registered entity, provides GDPR-standard data processing agreements as standard, which satisfies cross-border transfer obligations for enterprises with EU parent companies or EU data subject exposure.

Chilean colocation pricing is generally competitive within Latin America. Santiago's maturing market, now at 36 PeeringDB-registered facilities, supports a range of operator options at different price points. Ascenty and GTD typically offer competitive rack rates for standard enterprise deployments. Equinix ST1/ST2 commands a premium for its global carrier ecosystem and cloud on-ramp value. Retail rack rates in Santiago vary by operator, power density, and contract term. Full-cabinet monthly rates for standard power density deployments at mid-market operators are generally in the range of USD 700-1,800 per cabinet per month. Equinix ST1/ST2 sits toward the upper end of market pricing. Renewable energy sourcing can be negotiated directly with some operators, supporting ESG reporting requirements for colocation tenants subject to sustainability mandates. For physical services, RebootMonkey charges per task, per block of pre-purchased hours, or on a monthly retainer. All pricing is in USD or EUR. Engineer tiers range from L1 escort and access to L4 design-level work, with hourly rates from under USD 20 for escort tasks to USD 45-70 for design and architecture engagements.

Choosing a colocation provider in Chile requires evaluating seismic resilience, IX connectivity requirements, cloud on-ramp access, operator ecosystem, and the availability of independent physical support across all facilities in your footprint. Seismic resilience: ask prospective operators about their seismic construction standards and last seismic event operational report. Chile sits in one of the world's highest seismic risk zones. Facilities constructed or retrofitted with modern base isolation or energy dissipation systems provide materially better continuity through significant events than unreinforced concrete construction. IX connectivity: if your application requires local Chilean network peering, proximity to PIT Chile's 154-network membership is the primary criterion. Cirion SAN1 holds 5 IX connections, the highest in Chile, and is the recommended anchor for networks prioritising peering optionality. For enterprises with simpler connectivity needs, any major Santiago operator supports business connectivity. Cloud on-ramp: if AWS Direct Connect or Azure ExpressRoute is required from a Chilean facility, Equinix ST1/ST2 is the primary option. Verify that the specific cloud provider's on-ramp is live at that facility before committing to a contract. Cross-facility physical support: for enterprises using multiple facilities in Santiago (a common configuration for disaster recovery deployments), verify that independent third-party physical support is available across all nominated buildings. No facility operator's in-house team covers multiple operators. RebootMonkey provides vendor-neutral coverage across the full 51-facility Chilean estate under one SLA.