Conecta Infra Commits $350 Million to Build 6,000 km Neutral Fiber Network Across South America

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Conecta Infra, backed by an investor group led by MissionCo, has formally launched as a neutral optical infrastructure platform and is deploying roughly 6,000 kilometers of fully owned, underground fiber across South America to link major data center hubs in Brazil, Chile and Argentina. The investment plan, initiated in the second half of 2025 and totaling about US$350 million, targets key Brazilian corridors including Porto Alegre, Curitiba, Brasília, Rio de Janeiro and Fortaleza, positioning the company as a core backbone provider for regional cloud and AI growth.

Founded in 2019 as RW Telecom by CEO Rafael Pires, the company has already secured critical rights-of-way and built an initial route connecting the Praia Grande submarine cable landing station to the Tamboré data center cluster in Barueri, one of Brazil’s most important data corridors. Operating strictly as a physical infrastructure provider, Conecta Infra offers dark fiber, dedicated ducts and technical space at modular in-line amplifier sites spaced roughly every 80 kilometers, enabling telecom operators, hyperscalers and content providers to control their own optical equipment while relying on a high-availability, low-latency network engineered for AI-era workloads and long-term, contract-backed cash flows.

Conecta Infra’s model is designed to offload the complexity of long-haul fiber deployment—permitting, civil works and route maintenance—from hyperscalers and global data center operators, allowing them to concentrate capital on compute and traffic management rather than underlying ducts and fiber. With AI driving rack power densities from about 10 kW to over 100 kW and multiplying demand for interconnections and fiber terminations, Conecta Infra aims to become one of South America’s leading independent optical infrastructure platforms, linking data center clusters, submarine cable landing stations and major metropolitan markets while benefiting from infrastructure-like asset duration and low obsolescence risk.

MissionCo views the expansion of Conecta Infra as a timely play on the structural growth of Latin American digital infrastructure, where neutral, modern fiber networks remain underbuilt relative to hyperscale and AI requirements, and expects long-term revenue visibility through wholesale contracts with blue-chip technology and telecom tenants. For executives evaluating regional connectivity strategies, Conecta Infra represents a specialized, carrier-neutral alternative to self-build models, offering scale, geographic reach and engineered resilience aligned with the performance and latency needs of next-generation cloud and AI platforms.

The network architecture is based on 100% underground, fully owned ducts with N+1 backup power at intermediate sites, designed to improve reliability and reduce exposure to environmental and operational disruptions along long-haul routes. As the platform extends beyond its initial Brazilian backbone into Chile and Argentina, Conecta Infra is positioned to become a strategic enabler for cross-border data flows, providing the physical layer that underpins regional AI clusters, cloud availability zones and submarine cable integrations.

Pires emphasizes that even marginal inefficiencies in fiber design can cascade into systemic performance constraints for hyperscale networks, reinforcing the value of purpose-built routes optimized for low latency and high fiber counts. By focusing on neutral, wholesale dark fiber instead of retail bandwidth services, Conecta Infra reduces channel conflict with its customers and aligns incentives around long-term capacity planning, potentially supporting multi-year anchor tenant agreements and improving the predictability of returns for its investors.

With MissionCo managing more than R$2 billion in assets and bringing experience from prior IPOs and infrastructure investments, the backing provides both capital and governance support for Conecta Infra’s expansion agenda. In the medium term, the company’s ability to secure and execute on additional rights-of-way across South America will be a key determinant of its competitive position against incumbent carriers and other neutral platforms, as enterprises and hyperscalers consolidate vendor relationships around a smaller set of high-reliability, cross-border fiber partners.

For regional telecom operators and content providers, Conecta Infra’s neutral offering can serve as a capex-light path to expand backbone capacity and optimize routing between critical data center hubs, landing stations and metro networks. As AI and cloud workloads continue to scale, the company’s strategy to build long-lived, low-obsolescence fiber infrastructure underpinned by long-term wholesale contracts may support stable cash flow profiles, setting the stage for future refinancing, strategic partnerships or potential capital markets events once the network build-out reaches critical mass.