BelémElea’s AI data center is advancing without an environmental licence.
Continuous noise is among the concerns around the project.
Elea Data Centers announced in June 2026 that it would build the Amazon’s first AI data center in Brazil.
The same territory hosts aparelhagem sound culture, marked by marginalisation, so the question is whose noise is tolerated.
How each outlet framed it
- Agência Pública leans critical
- reports the Belém AI data center advancing without environmental licensing, framed around noise pollution and a parallel Amazon sound culture (aparelhagem)
Sources: Agência Pública