Data-center law in Guyana

National jurisdiction · as of 2026-09-05

Guyana has no data-center-specific siting, permitting, or utility statute; a data-center project is governed by the general investment framework of the Investment Act 2004 (Act No. 1 of 2004), assented to by President Bharrat Jagdeo on 31 March 2004.

The Act grants investment incentives and priority-sector treatment across all fields of lawful economic activity rather than naming information technology or data infrastructure as a distinct priority sector, and its fiscal-incentive machinery runs through the Income Tax (In Aid of Industry) Act rather than through the Investment Act itself.

No provision addresses electricity grid interconnection, water use, or air emissions specifically; the Act instead requires an investor generally to adhere to the Environmental Protection Act and to the standards of the Guyana National Bureau of Standards.

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?

Investment Act 2004

In force

Investment Act 2004 (Act No. 1 of 2004)

Applies to both

The Investment Act 2004, assented to by President Bharrat Jagdeo on 31 March 2004, sets Guyana's general framework for encouraging and protecting national, foreign, and joint-venture investment across all fields of lawful economic activity, without naming information technology or data infrastructure as a distinct priority sector.

Section 5 lets investors invest in and operate enterprises in any lawful field, subject to sectors the Minister may close by affirmative resolution of the National Assembly, and section 6 bars investment that is prejudicial to national security, detrimental to the environment or public health, or contrary to Guyana's laws.

Section 36 channels the Act's fiscal-incentive machinery through the Income Tax (In Aid of Industry) Act, providing that investment priority categories are detailed in Priority Lists set out in section 2 of that Act, and section 37 requires the Government to publish in the Gazette information on all fiscal incentives granted under it.

Section 29 binds an investor to protect the natural environment as mandated by the Environmental Protection Act and to protect worker and public health and safety, and section 30 binds an investor to comply with the standards of the Guyana National Bureau of Standards on imported products and equipment.

Section 39 assigns the Guyana Office for Investment (Go-Invest), established under the Public Corporations Act 1988, the role of facilitating and promoting investment and assisting investors with incentive applications. The sources located for this Act state its assent date but do not carry a separate commencement or Gazette-publication date.

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