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Colombia
Colombia has a funded AI policy that names data centres and supercomputing, but a small data centre base and an energy bottleneck.
CONPES 4144, approved on 14 February 2025, sets the national AI policy to 2030 with a budget of COP 479.273 billion. Its objectives include data and infrastructure, covering data centres, interoperability platforms and access to supercomputing. A market article puts installed data centre IT load at about 50 MW, heading to 80 MW by end 2026, and says the country has connectivity but not yet the energy. For someone seeking compute, supply is modest and expanding.
AI policy and activity
The policy has six objectives: ethics and governance, data and infrastructure, research and innovation, talent, risk mitigation and adoption.
Power and grid
The same market article says Colombia lacks a strategic infrastructure policy identifying where data centres should sit and how power reaches them, and compares its roughly 50 MW with Brazil at about 950 MW and Chile at about 342 MW.
Data centres and compute
| Site | Where | Status | Notes and source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bogota and Medellin facilities (Triara and others) Claro, Equinix, Odata and others | Bogota, Medellin | Operating | Market article lists investment announcements from Equinix, IFX, Oracle, Claro, HostDime and Liberty Networks. Odata separately announced two new campuses. (source) |
| Telconet Barranquilla Telconet | Barranquilla | Planned | One of three new Telconet data centres reported as due before end 2026. (source) |
Rules and programmes
| Instrument | Kind | Status | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|
| CONPES 4144: national AI policy | Policy | In force from 14 February 2025 | Law-firm summary. Implementation 2024-2030 with biannual monitoring. |
Checked on 2 October 2026 and due for review by 1 January 2027. Many sources are trade press or law-firm summaries rather than official texts, and statuses such as reported or unconfirmed are shown as the source gives them. This is a summary, not legal advice. If something is wrong or out of date, tell us.