The city of Pindamonhangaba, in the interior of São Paulo state, is set to welcome a new venture in the national technology sector.. The city will be home to RiverHook Village 18, a hyperscale data center campus designed to rank among the largest digital infrastructure projects in South America.. – Pindamonhangaba Municiapality.
The official announcement was made on April 28, 2026, during the launch of the Investe Pinda platform at the Intercity Hotel, attended by Mayor Ricardo Piorino and RiverHook Village co-founder Fabio Gordon.. The project calls for the development of a site spanning more than 500,000 square meters (5.38m sq ft) along Via Estrutural, a new highway connecting SP-62 to the Feital Industrial District, and an initial installed capacity of 150MW, with the potential to expand to up to 300MW.
The financial investment starts at 5 billion reais ($965.6 million) and could reach 10bn reais ($1.9bn) over the subsequent phases of the project.. The company’s name, RiverHook Village, is a loose translation of “Pindamonhangaba” into English. “Pinda,” in the Tupi language, refers to a fishhook; “hook,” in English, has the same meaning.
The choice carries a deliberate symbolic intention: to anchor a global-scale project in this municipality in São Paulo state.. Incorporated in November 2025, RiverHook Village’s partners include the consulting firms Indo-Bras United and LetsGoFusion, the latter owned by Fabio Gordon, an executive who has held positions at IBM, Oracle, and Dell in Brazil.
Negotiations with the Pindamonhangaba city government began in August 2025, and the selection of the location involved a careful analysis of strategic factors.. The city’s Department of Economic Development, headed by Marcelo Martuscelli, cites energy availability as a decisive factor in the city’s selection.
The project received approval for an additional 150MW of capacity, with the potential to double that capacity in the future, exclusively to serve the campus.. RiverHook Village 18 is being designed to serve large cloud infrastructure providers and artificial intelligence-driven companies that require massive processing capacity..
The site will reportedly rely on waterless cooling, a critical consideration in a region facing growing pressure on water resources. The solution largely removes the need for traditional evaporative cooling towers, which consume millions of liters of water per year in large facilities..
The timeline calls for construction to begin in October 2026 and for the facility to become operational in June 2028.. The announcement of RiverHook Village was the first to be formalized under the Investe Pinda platform, a municipal initiative to attract investment. According to Mayor Ricardo Piorino, two other companies have already confirmed they will set up operations near Via Estrutural..
This piece was automatically translated from DCD’s Portuguese site and edited by a member of DCD staff.. More in Construction & Site Selection. 08 May 2026.
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