A data center project, an FTTH expansion, and a subsea speed trial:
The UK might soon have a giant new AI-focused data center campus in North Lincolnshire. Plans are now public from Elsham Tech Park to transform an old RAF airfield at Elsham Wolds near Scunthorpe into as much as 1.5M square meters of data center floorspace. The project, which would take a decade or more to build out, would see 15 high capacity facilities and a gigawatt of power put in place along with a range of supporting infrastructure. Some 2,600 to 3,600 jobs would be created during that construction period, and the costs would be somewhere near £7.6B.
Ritter is expanding the reach of its RightFiber infrastructure in Tennessee. They are investing $4.2M into the town of Dyersburg, home to some 16K people northeast of Memphis. Construction is already underway, and the project should be complete by the end of this summer. RightFiber first entered Dyersburg in 2023.
A new speed record on the Hawaiki Transpacific cable system was announced this week. According to the system owners at BW Digital, they used Ciena’s WaveLogic 6 Extreme technology to achieve 1.2Tbps per wavelength across a stretch of 4,300km. Hawaiki connects the US west coast with Australia and New Zealand and was built in 2018.
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