Magru data center

Magru data center
Map of Wikimedia Foundation data centers. codfw eqiad esams ulsfo eqsin drmrs magru
Nearby airport	Guarulhos International Airport (GRU)
Location	São Paulo, Brazil
Datacenter number	#7
Usage	Edge caching

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Data centers

• Data center locations:
  • eqiad data center (Ashburn, USA)
  • codfw data center (Dallas, USA)
  • esams data center (Amsterdam, NL)
  • ulsfo data center (San Francisco, USA)
  • eqsin data center (Singapore, SG)
  • drmrs data center (Marseille, FR)
  • magru data center (São Paulo, BR)
• Data center operations
  • Common data center spec
  • Platform-specific doc
• Naming conventions

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Magru (pronounced mah-groo) is a caching data center located at Ascenty São Paulo 3 in São Paulo, Brazil.

History

Magru is the first Wikimedia data center not to follow the traditional Data center naming conventions of vendor initials + airport code. In December 2023, after two months of debate (SPGRU, BRGRU, CSGRU, IMGRU, GRU01, AAGRU), SRE DC Ops have decided on Magru as the location's name.

The datacenter came online on 2024-06-11.

Further reading

• The journey to open our first data center in South America, Wikimedia Diff blog, 2024.