With 12 data centers across five cloud regions — and counting — Huawei is stepping up its cloud and artificial intelligence offering in Latin America, in a push driven, though not only, by a cost-benefit bet for companies in the region.
The region, like other emerging economies in Asia and Africa, has become an important growth avenue for the company amid sales restrictions and supply sanctions imposed by the US and some European countries.
In its recently released first-half financial report, Huawei reported total revenue of 467.82 billion yuan (about US$69.5bn) for the first half of 2026, up 9.6% year-on-year.
Despite this, the company posted a 36% drop in net profit for the period, attributed to higher input costs and increased investment in artificial intelligence and in R&D for its own chips.
In Latin America, Huawei Cloud is expanding the adoption of AI as a service. The company says it already counts over 200 clients using its Model as a Service (MaaS) platform. Currently, half of them record daily usage exceeding 10mn tokens.
MaaS is a cloud-based platform that lets businesses and developers use ready-to-run artificial intelligence models via APIs, without needing to build or manage complex local hardware.
The platform provides access to AI models such as DeepSeek, GLM, Qwen and Kimi.
Market data presented during a company event in São Paulo show that 58% of Latin American companies have already adopted generative AI, while 88% operate in multicloud environments.
By 2028, the outlook presented is that 80% of companies in the region will adopt multi-model strategies, while multicloud use is expected to reach 98%.
That is the path Huawei is betting on.
In Latin America, Huawei Cloud says it is becoming a preferred cloud for enterprise multicloud and hybrid-cloud deployments.
At the event, Huawei Cloud presented MaaS as part of two trends in the region: cloud adoption and the integration of artificial intelligence into business processes.
The group announced a 30% discount on GLM (General Language Model) models, an open-source AI platform, between 10am and 9pm Latin America time.
The company also reinforced a “Zero Data Retention” policy. According to Huawei, there are scenarios in which use of the GLM-5.2 model can reduce costs by between 60% and 80%, in addition to enabling AI agent applications in corporate processes.
According to Huawei, prompts, embeddings and responses are kept in volatile memory during the processing of API requests, without the content being written to storage devices. After the response is completed, the temporary data is discarded.
Huawei Cloud also says that client data and interactions are not used to train, improve or recalibrate public or shared models.
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Globally, Huawei Cloud operates directly in more than 170 countries and regions, with 34 cloud regions and 103 availability zones (AZs). The company also says it has more than 2,800 CDN PoPs in place.
In Latin America, the company operates cloud regions in Mexico (LA Mexico City 1&2), with four data centers (AZs); in Brazil (LA São Paulo1), with three data centers; in Peru and Chile (LA-Santiago and LA-Lima1), each with two data centers; and in Argentina (LA-Buenos Aires1), with one AZ.
Huawei Cloud says it has the largest number of local nodes and the fastest business growth of all cloud service providers in Latin America.
Huawei is expanding its data center in Argentina and maintains plans for a second one in the country, amid growing demand for cloud services, artificial intelligence and digital infrastructure solutions.
“We have strong demand in the retail and logistics sectors, which shows how we work with multiple verticals in the cloud segment. In this business unit, we have recorded 50% growth every year,” said Pablo Juanes Roig, vice president of Fintech at Huawei, in an interview on the occasion.
Banking and fintech is one of Huawei Cloud’s main customer segments.
In 2025, Huawei confirmed the rollout of new availability zones in Chile and Brazil and announced investment in a second data center in Argentina.
Although the company confirms it maintains plans for a second data center, there have been no significant developments to date.
In 2025, Huawei generated revenue of 37.2 billion yuan (US$5.1bn) in the Americas, equivalent to just 4% of total revenue and a modest 2.4% increase year-on-year.
Because of the restrictions Huawei faces in the US and Canada, the region essentially corresponds to Latin America.
The performance lagged behind that recorded in other regions, such as Asia-Pacific and EMEA, where growth was significantly stronger, and is below the 2.7% expansion pace seen in 2024.
In 2025, in the Americas, the rollout of 5G and data communication networks picked up speed, and industries accelerated the pace of digital, intelligent and low-carbon transformation, the company said.
“The ICT infrastructure business and the digital power business remained steady, while the cloud computing business grew rapidly and the consumer business maintained its focus and recorded growth,” the company said in its latest annual report.
In Latin America, there are agreements with oil and gas companies to upgrade optical backbone network platforms, aiming to achieve connection speeds of up to 200 Gbit/s.
The company also says it has developed private industrial 5G networks at 450 MHz in the region, which provide high uplink speeds for large numbers of sensors.
Among other agreements, there are projects with YPF and AI technology initiatives implemented with partners such as Stefanini, Semantix and Senior Sistemas.
Brazilian IT company Serpro and Huawei Cloud are also working on a national e-government cloud, which uses artificial intelligence and big data for innovation in public services and digital government.
While ensuring the security of core data, Serpro provides an engine to promote intelligent transformation and economic development for a digital Brazil, Huawei says.
(The original version of this content was written in Portuguese)