Metro Bytes: GlobeLink, STACK, Gigapower, Brightspeed

Two big projects in the southwest, plus two last mile fiber updates:

GlobeLink Holdings is teaming up with Texas Critical Data Centers to build out a major regional fiber network in Texas. The two companies have signed an MoU to develop 1,600 route miles of fiber in support of AI and cloud workloads. The network will be designed for sub-5ms latency and 30Tbps capacity per fiber pair.

STACK Infrastructure has some big plans for New Mexico. They have announced a role in Project Jupiter, a next generation data campus spearheaded by BorderPlex Digital Assets in Doña Ana County. That’s on the southern border next to El Paso TX. The project envisions investments totaling $165B over the long term, with much of that going into community-focused water and power technology to support things.

Gigapower says its FTTx network expansion has now reached parts of six states. The joint venture between AT&T and BlackRock’s Global Infrastructure Partners says it now has open access network available in Florida, New Mexico, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Minnesota. The company is aiming to reach 1.5M fiber locations.

And Brightspeed has offered updates on its buildouts across 3 states over the past week. In Louisiana the company’s network reaches some 6,200 homes and businesses with another thousand or so on deck. In Alabama they now reached some 102,000 endpoints. And in Kansas, Brightspeed’s buildout is complete in 11 markets touching 24,000 endpoints, while work continues in dozens of markets to reach another 33,000 or so.

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