10 MW, 100 MW and 1 GW

Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and MITIC describe the first stage as approximately 10 MW of computing capacity. That unit describes the scale of the computing project and should not automatically be substituted for the total demand that the electricity grid will have to supply.

A facility’s complete consumption includes servers, cooling, electrical conversion, networking and auxiliary equipment. However, available primary sources do not publish enough specifications to establish total consumption for the 10 MW and 100 MW phases. PARAGUAY INSIGHT does not fill that gap by assuming an unpublished power usage effectiveness (PUE) or efficiency figure.

Taiwan’s official communication sets out feasibility studies and due diligence first, followed by a pilot stage of around 10 MW to validate technical, operational and commercial parameters. If the pilot succeeds, a later phase would coordinate private investment and international partners to scale to 100 MW, with an ultimate vision of up to 1 GW of hyperscale infrastructure.

It is therefore inappropriate to treat 1 GW as demand contracted today. The 10 MW phase is closest to implementation; 100 MW and up to 1 GW depend on the success of earlier stages and additional conditions.

In May 2026, MITIC explained that a third stage of up to 1 GW of computing capacity would have associated energy requirements of approximately 1.5 GW. This is the most explicit relationship between computing scale and energy demand found in the official sources reviewed.

We do not mechanically apply that relationship to the 10 MW and 100 MW phases. Without knowing each stage’s equipment configuration, cooling, redundancy, efficiency and operation, claiming total consumption of 15 MW or 150 MW would be an extrapolation unsupported by public documentation.

ANDE’s Generation Master Plan 2024–2043 presents four peak-demand scenarios for 2043: 10,094 MW, 11,009 MW, 14,156 MW and 15,072 MW, reflecting different combinations of socioeconomic growth and new demand.

For its infrastructure expansion analysis, ANDE uses the trend scenario plus potential new demand, the most demanding scenario considered. These national peak-demand values must not be confused with grid capacity immediately available for a data center at a specific location.

As an order-of-magnitude comparison, 1,500 MW represents approximately 9.95–14.86% of ANDE’s projected 10,094–15,072 MW range for 2043. PARAGUAY INSIGHT rounds that comparison to approximately 10–15%.

This is not an ANDE forecast that AI will consume 10–15% of national demand. It is an editorial calculation comparing MITIC’s reference for a possible 1 GW stage with national ANDE projections prepared for a different purpose. The timing, definition and location of the load remain decisive.

A large data center needs to know how much power can be connected at its site, on what date, from which substation and lines, with what redundancy and under which long-term contractual conditions. National energy abundance is an advantage, but does not replace an interconnection study.

ANDE is expanding its infrastructure through projects such as the 500 kV Yguazú–Valenzuela line and the second 500 kV Itaipú–Villa Hayes line. Even so, we have not yet found a comprehensive publication detailing dedicated capacity, schedules and tariff terms for each Yguazú Digital phase. This remains a gap in the sources.