Data-center law in Argentina

National jurisdiction · as of 2026-09-05

Argentina has no data-center-specific siting, permitting, environmental, energy-grid, or water-utilities statute; a data-center project is instead governed by the general Régimen de Incentivo para Grandes Inversiones (RIGI), Título VII of Ley 27.742 (2024).

RIGI names 'tecnología' (technology) as one of eight eligible sectors, and its implementing regulation defines that sector's eligible activities as biotechnology, nanotechnology, new-motorization and energy-transition mobility, the aerospace and satellite industry, the nuclear industry, the software industry, the robotics industry, artificial intelligence, and the arms and defense industry; neither the statute nor its regulation names data centers or digital infrastructure as such, so whether a data-center project qualifies would turn on whether its activities fall within one of those named categories, most plausibly the software or artificial-intelligence lines, rather than on an explicit statutory listing.

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Instruments on record

1 instrument on record, grouped by the family of approval each one governs.

Public agreements

What fiscal agreements attach a data center to its host jurisdiction?

Ley 27.742, Título VII, Régimen de Incentivo para Grandes Inversiones (RIGI)

In force

Ley 27.742, Ley de Bases y Puntos de Partida para la Libertad de los Argentinos, Título VII (RIGI), arts. 164-227

Effective 2024-07-09 · Applies to private

Article 164 creates RIGI for single-project investment vehicles meeting the title's requirements, offering tax, customs, and exchange-rate incentives together with legal-stability guarantees for a defined term. Article 167 makes RIGI available to Large Investments in the forestry-industry, tourism, infrastructure, mining, technology, steel, energy, and oil-and-gas sectors.

The implementing regulation, Decreto 749/2024, defines the technology sector's eligible activities as the production of innovative technological goods and services in biotechnology, nanotechnology, new-motorization and energy-transition mobility, the aerospace and satellite industry, the nuclear industry, the software industry, the robotics industry, artificial intelligence, and the arms and defense industry; it does not separately name data centers or digital infrastructure.

Article 218 assigns oversight to an application authority designated by the national Executive, and article 221 routes disputes between the State and an adhering investment vehicle to arbitration.

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