North America
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Arelion has launched three new fully diverse mesh routes in Texas, forming a ring from Austin to Dallas, to Houston and back to Austin, with additional capacity between Austin, San Antonio and El Paso.
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Cerebras Systems, makers of some of the largest chips in the world, has launched six new data centres to power its growing AI inference service.
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SES and Lynk Global have revealed a strategic partnership to accelerate the high-growth direct-to-device (D2D) market.
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Elon Musk’s xAI is believed to have purchased a one-million-square-foot site for a new data centre to expand its presence in Memphis, Tennessee.
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Florida-based IQ Fiber is set to expand its 10-gig capable network in South Carolina to continue its expansion across the Southeast of the US.
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SAT-IX has become the first Internet Exchange to partner with DE-CIX as a Turnkey Connectivity Partner, enabling San Antonio networks to directly connect and peer with networks in Dallas without additional transport solutions or remote cross-connect charges.
Forthcoming events
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Vertiv has revealed plans for a major expansion of its North American manufacturing footprint with a new 215,000-square-foot facility in Pelzer, South Carolina.
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Italian cloud and data centre operator Aruba S.p.A has unveiled its €300 million hyperscale data centre campus in Rome.
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Google has started construction on two new data centres in Dorchester County, South Carolina, as part of a $2 billion investment that will create 200 jobs.
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AT&T has agreed to pay US$13 million to resolve an investigation over a data breach of a cloud vendor in January 2023.
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Macquarie Asset Management and PSP Investments will sell their 88% stake in AirTrunk to a Blackstone-led investor consortium.
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Nokia has signed a multi-year agreement with AT&T to deploy next-generation fibre access technology.
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iBASIS has appointed Patrick George as its new CEO, following renewed backing from its existing financial investors including lead investor Ciclad.
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Nvidia will beat previous results when the chipmaker publishes its earnings later today.
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Italy’s Aruba S.p.A (Aruba) has implemented liquid cooling within the data centre campus in Ponte San Pietro (BG), near Milan.
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IQ Fiber has completed its Phase 1 network deployment with service now available to more than 60,000 residential addresses in the Jacksonville metro area.
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Tillman FiberCo (Tillman Fiber), a provider of fibre optic broadband infrastructure, has confirmed the expansion of its fibre-to-the-premise (FTTP) network in Florida.
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Pioneer Consulting has been selected to provide initial engineering and design services for the FISH in SEAK submarine cable system (fibre internet serving homes in Southeast Alaska), an early-stage submarine cable which complements the FISH in AK project (fibre internet serving homes in Alaska).