Luke Adams Is Betting Costa Rica Will Become Latin America’s Next AI Infrastructure Hub

The global race to build artificial intelligence infrastructure has largely been defined by familiar markets.

The United States continues to dominate hyperscale development, while countries across Europe and the Middle East compete to attract investment from companies including Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Oracle, Meta, and OpenAI. Billions of dollars are flowing into new data centers as governments and private industry race to secure the computing capacity needed to support the next generation of artificial intelligence.

Increasingly, however, industry leaders are looking beyond traditional technology markets.

Latin America is emerging as one of the world’s most promising regions for digital infrastructure, driven by growing cloud adoption, expanding fiber connectivity, improving renewable energy resources, and governments eager to attract long-term technology investment.

Luke Adams believes that shift is only beginning.

“The conversation around AI infrastructure has focused on North America and Europe,” says Adams, Founder of Data Center Youngbloods (DCYB). “But the next decade will include markets that many people aren’t paying attention to yet.”

That belief has taken Adams far beyond workforce development.

Alongside building Data Center Youngbloods, Adams is also a co-developer of Pura Vida Data Centers, a planned 100-to-120-megawatt hyperscale campus in Guanacaste, Costa Rica. The project reflects a growing trend as developers explore new regions capable of supporting the enormous power and infrastructure requirements created by artificial intelligence.

While Costa Rica has traditionally been recognized for tourism, environmental stewardship, and renewable energy, Adams believes the country also possesses characteristics that make it increasingly attractive for digital infrastructure investment. Reliable renewable generation, political stability, strategic geographic positioning, and continued investment in connectivity have all contributed to growing interest from technology companies and infrastructure developers.

“Data centers follow more than demand,” Adams explains. “They follow power, connectivity, political stability, and long-term planning. Costa Rica checks many of those boxes.”

The emergence of artificial intelligence has fundamentally changed how companies think about infrastructure expansion.

Unlike previous waves of cloud computing, AI workloads require dramatically higher computing density, greater electrical capacity, advanced cooling systems, and increasingly sophisticated facility design. Those requirements are encouraging developers to evaluate regions capable of supporting long-term growth rather than simply expanding existing campuses in already constrained markets.

For Adams, that creates an opportunity for countries that have historically sat outside the industry’s traditional centers.

“Every major market eventually reaches constraints,” he says. “Power becomes scarce. Land becomes expensive. Timelines get longer. The industry naturally begins looking for the next generation of strategic locations.”

Costa Rica represents one example of that broader evolution.

As Latin America continues expanding its digital economy, demand for regional cloud infrastructure is expected to increase alongside it. Enterprises throughout the region are accelerating cloud adoption, while global technology companies continue investing in infrastructure designed to reduce latency, improve resilience, and support AI-driven applications closer to end users.

Adams believes those trends will reshape how investors view the region over the next decade.

The opportunity, however, extends beyond buildings and technology.

Through Data Center Youngbloods, Adams has spent years focused on another challenge facing the global industry: workforce development. As more infrastructure projects emerge in new markets, demand for skilled technicians, engineers, operators, project managers, and commissioning professionals will continue growing alongside them. Adams views physical infrastructure and human infrastructure as inseparable.

“You can’t build a world-class data center without world-class people,” he says. “As new regions develop, workforce development has to grow with them.”

That philosophy has become central to both of Adams’ ventures. Data Center Youngbloods focuses on expanding the global talent pipeline through community, education, and employer partnerships, while Pura Vida Data Centers reflects the physical expansion of AI infrastructure into emerging markets. Together, Adams sees them as addressing two sides of the same challenge: where the world’s next digital infrastructure will be built and who will build it.

For a founder in his mid-twenties, the projects represent an unusually international perspective on one of technology’s fastest-growing industries. Rather than concentrating exclusively on established markets, Adams believes the future of artificial intelligence will depend on a broader global network of infrastructure capable of supporting continued innovation.

“The AI economy won’t be built by one country,” he says. “It will be built by regions working together to create the infrastructure the world will need over the next several decades.”

As investment in artificial intelligence continues accelerating worldwide, Costa Rica may become one of the markets drawing increasing attention from developers, investors, and technology companies alike.

For Adams, that’s precisely the point.

“The biggest opportunities are rarely where everyone is already looking,” he says. “They’re where the industry is heading next.”

If that prediction proves accurate, Latin America’s role in the AI economy may expand well beyond serving its users.

It may become one of the regions helping power it.