Data-center law in Haiti

National jurisdiction · as of 2026-09-05

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Haiti has no data-center-specific siting, permitting, or utility statute; a data-center project is governed by the general investment framework of the Code des Investissements, the Décret du 30 octobre 1989 as amended by the Loi du 9 octobre 2002.

That Code lists the sectors eligible for its tax and customs incentives (export and re-export, agriculture, handicrafts, national industry, tourism, foreign trade zones, and other special sectors and arrangements) without naming information technology or data infrastructure as a distinct priority sector, and grants any enterprise establishing itself where local infrastructure is insufficient or nonexistent, a condition a data center's power, water, or telecommunications needs could plausibly meet, a general right to build and operate that infrastructure itself.

A Loi du 2 août 2002 sur les zones franches (Law on Foreign Trade Zones) is a contemporaneous, distinct instrument that also touches investment incentives, but its text was not located and no provision of it is recorded here.

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?

Code des Investissements, Décret du 30 octobre 1989, tel que modifié par la Loi du 9 octobre 2002

In force

Décret du 30 octobre 1989 relatif au Code des Investissements, tel que modifié par la Loi du 9 octobre 2002

Applies to both

This Investment Code promotes and guarantees private investment in Haiti; a State-controlled enterprise and a private Haitian or foreign enterprise engaged in a competing economic activity are subject to the same laws.

Article 19 lists the categories of investment eligible for the Code's tax and customs incentives: export and re-export, agriculture, handicrafts, national industry, tourism and related services, foreign trade zones, and other special sectors and arrangements approved individually; it does not name information technology, data centers, or data infrastructure as a distinct category.

Article 20 authorizes any enterprise establishing itself in a location where infrastructure is insufficient or nonexistent to build and operate that infrastructure itself, defined as the constructions, facilities, and equipment generally necessary for its operations, in exchange for submitting a program to that effect with its request; the Article is not confined to any sector and does not address electric-grid interconnection, water use, or air emissions with any data-center-specific rule.

Article 83 repeals any conflicting prior law and requires the Code to be published and executed, without stating a delay before the Code takes effect distinct from that publication, and the available text does not carry a confirmed publication date in the Official Journal.

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