Lightpath, an all-fiber, infrastructure-based connectivity provider revolutionizing how organizations connect to their digital destinations, announced it has closed the transaction to acquire substantially all assets of United Fiber and Data (UFD). The company also introduced LightCube Edge Data Centers, which will be first deployed along its NYC-Ashburn strategic network route.

Engine No. 1 and Chevron U.S.A. Inc. have partnered to build a new company to develop scalable, reliable power solutions for United States-based data centers running on U.S. natural gas. Early actions of the Trump Administration are setting the critical foundation to encourage investment in America’s energy abundance to enable AI leadership. The joint development, in conjunction with GE Vernova aims to establish the first multigigawatt co-located power plant and data center during President Trump’s second term.

Nokia and DE-CIX, the world’s leading Internet Exchange (IX) operator, announced the upgrade of the backbone network for DE-CIX New York, the largest IX in NY and in the Northeast U.S. region. The DE-CIX backbone will be upgraded to 400 Gigabit Ethernet (GE) using Nokia optical technology and redesigned in a ring topology. This will redundantly interconnect the 10 data center facilities where DE-CIX infrastructure is housed and enhance the resiliency of the platform for all participants.

Atlas Renewable Energy, an international provider of renewable energy sources, has finalized an agreement with ODATA, an Aligned Data Centers company and leader in Latin American data center construction and operations to power Chilean data centers with 100% renewable energy. 

C3ntro Telecom has upgraded its long-haul network between Mexico City and Queretaro using Infinera’s GX Series-based ICE6 800G solution and GX Open Line System (GX OLS). This enhancement provides a groundbreaking capacity of 1.6 Tb/s (2x800G) optical redundant transmission, ensuring interconnectivity across all data centers in both cities. 

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has granted GU Holdings, Edge Cable Holdings USA, and PLDT Inc. a Cable Landing License to build and operate the Apricot fiber-optic submarine cable system. 

Sparkle has launched its first Point of Presence (PoP) in Brasilia to support the growing demand for international connectivity in Brazil.

EXA Infrastructure has signed binding agreements to acquire Aqua Comms – a specialist operator of Transatlantic and intra-European subsea infrastructure.

Today, a great engineering endeavour, historically significant in the overall context of submarine cable development is unfolding in the Pacific Ocean. Pacific Connect, a Google supported network of Pacific Ocean cables, encompassing roughly tens of thousands of kilometers of fiber in various systems and interlinks, all announced to the world within the last 15 months, will deliver connectivity not just across the vast ocean, but to the small populations of several widely separated island nations who live there. 

Sparkle, a leading global operator in the submarine cable industry with a strong presence in the Americas, has partnered with Liberty Networks and Gold Data on the construction and commercialization of MANTA, the new pan-regional subsea cable system.