Friday Roundup: eX², Verizon Business, Prime, DartPoints, DE-CIX

Five interesting projects, four from around the US and one from Europe:

eX² Technology has completed some interesting infrastructure in Yuma County, Arizona. This week they commemorated the launch of an AgTech wireless tower network, a mesh network of towers supporting AI, IoT, drones, GIS mapping, and automation across 160,000 acres of farmland. The county’s farmland is among the most productive in the country.

Verizon Business has deployed some interesting infrastructure for the broadcast vertical in the DC metro area. They have completed a 100G dedicated optical ring for Monumental Sports & Entertainment, which owns the local media right for the Washington Capitals, Washington Wizards, Washington Mystics, and Capital City Go-Go games. The ring will connect Capital One Arena, MedStar Capitals Iceplex, MedStar Health Performance Center, and MSE’s corporate headquarters/broadcast facility. It will enable centralization of production operations.

Prime Data Centers has picked up some AI training and inference out in southern California. Lambda is deploying NVIDIA infrastructure at their LAX01 campus in the city of Vernon, five miles south of LA proper. LAX01 offers 33MW of power across 242,000 square feet of space built specifically for AI applications. Lambda will be taking up 21MW of that.

DartPoints is expanding its data center down in Greenville, South Carolina. They are adding 25% to the capacity of the facility, bringing it to 12.5MW and adding 88,000 square feet of high density space. The expansion will cost some $125M and create 10 new high tech jobs. The project will be complete in July 2027.

And DE-CIX has its first 800GE port customer at its flagship IX in Frankfurt, Germany. With the help of Nokia’s 800G-ZR+ single-lambda optics, they are hooking up Deutsche Glasfaser. The new technology puts all traffic over a single wavelength and optical module, simplifying the hardware and operations. Deutsche Glasfaser is expanding its FTTH connectivity across Germany, with 1.6Tbps of connectivity through DE-CIX.

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