Huawei Technologies is preparing to build data centers in Brazil but will wait for a forthcoming provisional measure that could grant tax breaks to information-technology projects, vice-president for public affairs Atilio Rulli said on 9 July. Speaking at an energy-transition event hosted by state development bank BNDES in Rio de Janeiro, Rulli said the Chinese group already serves Brazilian cloud clients from overseas facilities and wants local capacity once the incentives are defined. He urged the government to move quickly, noting that artificial-intelligence workloads require new domestic infrastructure “in the next two to three years.” Rulli added that Huawei also intends to bid in Brazil’s first federal auction for battery-energy storage systems, expected between late 2025 and 2026. The company has 34 GW of BESS installed worldwide but only 200 kW in Brazil. The announcement came as Chinese Premier Li Qiang, visiting the BRICS summit in Rio, encouraged Chinese firms to use Brazil as a springboard for broader Latin-American expansion.