Brazil Data Center Watch Free Headlines

By Kman.

Up to 25 English headlines from the last 7 days on data centers in Brazil, taken from official sources: Chamber of Deputies, Federal Senate, ANEEL and municipal gazettes. Federal Official Gazette (DOU): temporarily out, awaiting the official route (DOU: temporariamente fora, aguardando rota oficial). Its website disallows automated access in robots.txt, so it is not read until an official reuse route is in place. Each headline has the date, jurisdiction, record type, source name and the link to the official page. No summaries.

Public-source compilation. Not legal, credit or investment advice.

Use this when

• You want a free weekly check of what happened in Brazil on data center legislation, regulation, grid access and municipal acts.
• An AI agent needs a short list of dated, linked headlines before deciding whether to pull full records.

Full records (status, English summary, companies with CNPJ, deadlines, history) and the weekly edition are in Brazil Data Center Watch: https://apify.com/kman-br/brazil-datacenter-watch

Input

Field	Type	Default	What it does
maxItems	integer	25	Headlines returned, most relevant first. Cap 25. When no headline is dated in the last 7 days, the most recent ones are returned with their real dates and a fora_da_janela warning in RUN_SUMMARY.

Output

One dataset item per headline: title_en, date, jurisdiction (federal, state:XX, municipal:City-XX), type (bill, law, decree, ordinance, resolution, public_consultation, gazette_act, grid_access, procurement, contract, …), source_name, source_url. RUN_SUMMARY in the run's key-value store has the period covered and the link to the paid Actor.

Price

No event charges. The run uses a few seconds of compute on your Apify plan (pay per usage). The Actor refuses to run if pay-per-event pricing is ever turned on for it.

Sources

Chamber of Deputies Open Data API (https://dadosabertos.camara.leg.br), Federal Senate Legislative Open Data (https://legis.senado.leg.br/dadosabertos), Senate legislation list, ANEEL open data (https://dadosabertos.aneel.gov.br), Querido Diário municipal gazettes (https://queridodiario.ok.org.br). Collected once a day.

Methodology

Headlines are the records of the last 7 days with relevance 0.6 or more (a core term such as data center, centro de dados or Redata, or a grid-access term), ordered by relevance and date. Titles are glossary-based English translations of the official Portuguese titles. Personnel acts and personal data are excluded.

Sample output

Ten real items from the local run of 24 Oct 2026, in the headline format:

[
  {
    "title_en": "VET 50/2026: Partial veto imposed to the complementary bill No. 74, of 2026, that \"Amends Complementary Law No. 229, of March 30, 2026, to include the Special Tax Regime for Data Center Services (Redata), the programs federal of financing of actions of support to the people with cancer and…",
    "date": "2026-10-17",
    "jurisdiction": "federal",
    "type": "bill",
    "source_name": "Senado Federal",
    "source_url": "https://www25.senado.leg.br/web/atividade/materias/-/materia/175809"
  },
  {
    "title_en": "Law No. 15,504: Amends Law No. 11,196, of November 21, 2005, to establish the Special Tax Regime for Data Center Services (Redata) (Redata), and the Law No. 15,211, of September 17, 2025 (Estatuto Digital da Criança and of the Adolescente).",
    "date": "2026-09-15",
    "jurisdiction": "federal",
    "type": "law",
    "source_name": "Senado Federal — Legislação Federal",
    "source_url": "https://legis.senado.leg.br/norma/43892294"
  },
  {
    "title_en": "Complementary Law No. 237: Amends Complementary Law No. 229, of March 30, 2026, to include the Special Tax Regime for Data Center Services (Redata), the programs federal of financing of actions of support to the people with cancer and to the people with deficiência, as well as the tax relief of the Corporate income tax (IRPJ) (IRPJ) and of the social contribution on the Lucro Líquido (CSLL) of the sociedades resseguradoras locais, between the exceções to the rules applicable to the grant of tax benefits; and amends Complementary Law No. 101, of May 4, 2000 (Fiscal Responsibility Law), to desobrigar the Municipalities with until 65,000 (sessenta and cinco mil) habitantes of comprovar, for fins of realização of transferências voluntárias, the pagamento of taxes, empréstimos and financiamentos devidos to the ente transferidor and the provision of contas of resources anteriormente dele recebidos.",
    "date": "2026-09-15",
    "jurisdiction": "federal",
    "type": "law",
    "source_name": "Senado Federal — Legislação Federal",
    "source_url": "https://legis.senado.leg.br/norma/43892883"
  },
  {
    "title_en": "PL 4401/2026: Establishes the National Policy on Strategic Data Centers and makes other provisions.",
    "date": "2026-10-26",
    "jurisdiction": "federal",
    "type": "bill",
    "source_name": "Câmara dos Deputados",
    "source_url": "https://www.camara.leg.br/proposicoesWeb/fichadetramitacao?idProposicao=2641088"
  },
  {
    "title_en": "PL 5209/2026: Establishes general rules specific for the environmental licensing of data centers.",
    "date": "2026-08-28",
    "jurisdiction": "federal",
    "type": "bill",
    "source_name": "Câmara dos Deputados",
    "source_url": "https://www.camara.leg.br/proposicoesWeb/fichadetramitacao?idProposicao=2644764"
  },
  {
    "title_en": "PLP 23/2026: Establishes the Contribution for Intervention in the Economic Domain (CIDE) levied on data center services (CIDE–Data center); increases the rates of the CSLL, of the PIS/Pasep and of the Cofins applicable to the sector; revokes tax benefits federal and prohibits the grant of new incentives intended for…",
    "date": "2026-03-25",
    "jurisdiction": "federal",
    "type": "bill",
    "source_name": "Câmara dos Deputados",
    "source_url": "https://www.camara.leg.br/proposicoesWeb/fichadetramitacao?idProposicao=2602249"
  },
  {
    "title_en": "Official gazette of Campinas-SP, edition 13916 of 2026-09-25",
    "date": "2026-09-25",
    "jurisdiction": "municipal:Campinas-SP",
    "type": "gazette_act",
    "source_name": "Querido Diário (Open Knowledge Brasil), diários oficiais municipais",
    "source_url": "https://data.queridodiario.ok.org.br/3509502/2026-09-25/6b553d224a7f771561c6e6ec503ab6d91385f4fd.pdf"
  },
  {
    "title_en": "PL 5319/2026: Establishes mandatory requirement of implementation of water solutions own and prohibition of use of water of reservoir intended to the human consumption by the data processing centers, with exceptions, and makes other provisions.",
    "date": "2026-09-08",
    "jurisdiction": "federal",
    "type": "bill",
    "source_name": "Câmara dos Deputados",
    "source_url": "https://www.camara.leg.br/proposicoesWeb/fichadetramitacao?idProposicao=2646235"
  }
]

How an AI agent can call this

• Apify MCP server: connect https://mcp.apify.com and add kman-br/brazil-datacenter-watch-free as a tool.
• REST API:

$curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/kman-br~brazil-datacenter-watch-free/run-sync-get-dataset-items" -H "Authorization: Bearer $APIFY_TOKEN" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"maxItems":25}'

Use source_url as the citation. For status, summaries and companies, call Brazil Data Center Watch with the same period.