The world is entering a new energy race.
As power-hungry technologies like AI, cloud computing, and advanced manufacturing expand, countries with cheap, abundant, and reliable electricity suddenly matter a lot more than they used to.
Last year, I scouted a country with one of the strongest energy positions I’ve seen: Paraguay.
This South American nation produces nearly five times more electricity than it consumes— essentially 100% of it from hydropower.
Today, how Paraguay is emerging as an energy superpower and how that plays into the new deal I’m bringing to my Real Estate Trend Alert (RETA) group in Paraguay’s capital, Asunción, this Wednesday, April 29.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a country with so much going for it at once. Paraguay has what the world needs, from food and arable land, to fresh water and cheap, green electricity.
Why Cheap Power Matters More Than Ever
In the 20th century, the countries that got rich owned cheap oil.
In the 21st century, it will be the countries that own cheap, clean, reliable electricity.
And Paraguay has one of the most advantageous energy positions on the planet, producing vastly more electricity than it consumes.
AI data centers alone now consume as much power as medium-sized cities. A single next-generation facility can draw more electricity than a regional utility was built to supply.
Hyperscalers—Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Meta—are signing 20-year power contracts, buying entire power plants, and locking up renewable assets just to secure the electrons they need to keep their compute roadmaps on track.
And that’s before you layer on manufacturing electrification, heat pumps, EVs, green hydrogen, and everything else the energy transition demands.
In this world, places that can deliver abundant, cheap, low-carbon, reliable power become the natural homes for the economy’s highest-value activities.
The same way oil-rich regions once anchored refineries and petrochemical clusters, electricity-rich regions will anchor data centers, AI infrastructure, battery plants, chip fabs, and electrified heavy industry.
Paraguay is one of them. Arguably the one.
Paraguay has so much electricity that it’s becoming an energy superpower.
Paraguay’s Extraordinary Advantage
Paraguay generates essentially 100% of its electricity from low-carbon sources—overwhelmingly hydropower.
Its installed generation capacity is around five times its peak domestic demand. The enormous surplus gets exported to Brazil and Argentina.
The backbone of this is the Itaipú Dam, a binational project between Paraguay and Brazil. At 14 gigawatts of installed capacity, Itaipú is among the largest hydroelectric facilities on the planet, and has produced more cumulative power than any single generating station in history.
Paraguay owns 50% of Itaipú’s output under treaty. It has never come close to consuming all of its share so it sells the surplus to Brazil, earning roughly $1.09 billion between August 2023 and August 2025. That’s a lot of hard currency flowing into a country of seven million people.
A second binational dam, Yacyretá, provides another major generation base with Argentina. Transmission upgrades completed between 2019 and 2021 finally allowed Paraguay to draw down its full treaty share rather than leaving it on the table.
The result: industrial electricity in Paraguay costs around $38 to $39 per megawatt-hour, while the U.S. industrial average is closer to $100 per MWh—roughly two to three times higher. Business tariffs in Paraguay run at roughly one-third of both the South American and global averages, which is why power-hungry industries notice.
Now watch what’s happening because of this…
The Itaipú Dam. Paraguay generates nearly five times the electricity it consumes—all of it clean, all of it hydro—and exports the surplus to its neighbors for over half a billion dollars a year.
Capital Is Already Moving In
We’re already seeing signs that serious players are taking note of Paraguay’s advantage…
Canadian miner HIVE Digital has agreed to build a 100-megawatt hydro-powered data-center campus at its Yguazú site in Paraguay, using power from the Itaipú system.
Marathon Digital has deployed hydro-powered bitcoin mining. U.S.-based X8 Cloud has announced plans to invest between $8 billion to build what it claims will be South America’s largest AI data-center complex in Paraguay, with initial works slated to begin this year.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio told a Senate hearing last year that Paraguay has an “enormous strategic opportunity” to become an AI hub. The Paraguayan government, reading the moment correctly, approved a special tariff regime in early 2026 offering data centers dedicated to cloud computing and AI energy below standard rates.
In simple terms: Paraguay is shifting from passive exporter of raw electricity to active platform for the industries that will define the next two decades.
This is a once-in-a-generation tailwind.
And it’s blowing directly into Asunción’s back…
Industrial electricity in Paraguay costs around $38 per megawatt-hour. About a third of the South American average.
Why I’m Focused on Asunción
While the physical data centers might be sited near the dams, the headquarters, finance, legal, consulting, engineering, and executive-class residential that supports them all cluster in the capital…
That means executives. Lawyers. Consultants. Engineers. Regional headquarters. And executive-class housing.
That’s one reason I’m so interested in Asunción.
The city feels young, modern, and upwardly mobile.
And in one particular corridor—Asunción’s Golden Mile—wealth is beginning to concentrate.
This is where I’m bringing RETA members an incredible deal.
The deal is in Link Center, a landmark multi-purpose development on the last significant plot of land on Asunción’s Golden Mile.
The RETA-only price is from just $114,548 and I figure values will go up 40% to 50% during construction alone and 3X in a decade. (Developer’s renders shouldn’t be considered final.)
Here are the details:
- There are one-bed condos of 565 square feet from a RETA-only price of just $114,548. The off-market price rises by floor. A one-bed on the 16th floor is just $184,555.
- Each condo is priced off-market and RETA only—a truly killer deal. I figure values will rise by 40% to 50% during construction, but that’s not why I’m buying…
- I’m buying because I expect values to 3X within a decade, and I can earn income along the way.
- There are also two-beds starting from $240,076. That buys a condo of 1,184 square feet including a 133-square-foot terrace. Again the off-market price rises as you go up the building’s floors to $289,548.
I expect the two-beds will also increase by 40% to 50% in value during construction and 3X within a decade. Same goes for the select few stunning spacious three-beds available at off-market pricing on the upper floors from just $362,440.
This exclusive RETA-only deal opens on Wednesday, at 1 p.m. ET.
Wishing you good real estate investing,
P.S. Paraguay may not be on most investors’ radar today. But in view of the energy story unfolding here, it won’t stay overlooked for long…
A view of Link Center as conceived by the developer. Right next to the World Trade Center on the city’s Golden Mile it will be a sought-after base for the multinationals, agri-businesses, energy sector operators, logistics firms and other services establishing themselves in Paraguay.
