Industry Findings: Local procurement in Argentina increasingly weighs large-scale compute and tax-incentive-driven projects as factors in platform selection; with new investment regimes easing eligibility for major infrastructure projects, enterprises and governments are more willing to consider ambitious PaaS deployments that promise local AI compute and long-term SLAs, shifting vendor conversations from tactical hosting to strategic platform partnerships.
Industry Progression: A headline-making development was the letter of intent between OpenAI and Sur Energy to explore a potential US$25 billion data-centre project in Argentina, publicised in Oct-2025; the scale and government-backed incentives for that initiative materially raised the country’s profile for AI compute, encouraging local enterprises and regional vendors to reassess PaaS strategies that could leverage very large, in-country AI capacity if the project proceeds.
Industry Player Insights: Few market entities in Argentina include Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Claro/Telecom Argentina, and Mercado Libre Cloud etc. The OpenAI–Sur Energy announcement (Oct-2025) amplified commercial interest in Argentina as an AI compute destination and encouraged domestic carriers and cloud providers to accelerate platform roadmaps; vendors such as Claro and Mercado Libre are repositioning managed runtime and data services to capture potential demand tied to large-scale AI infrastructure and enterprise modernization projects.