06/16/2024 What I Read Last Week
#DigitalInfrastructure news: Compass, Vantage, Norway, Lightpath
Weekly Edition of curated news about Digital Infrastructure
[Link] Compass kicks off an Illinois project to transform the former Sears Headquarter site into a hyperscale data center campus. The company says that once it is operational, the project will represent approximately $10 billion in local investment.
[Link] Vantage Data Centers announced it has completed a $9.2 billion equity investment led by investment vehicles managed by DigitalBridge and Silver Lake.
[Link] Silicon Valley Utilities Gird for Surging Energy Demand Fed by New Data Centers. Pacific Gas and Electric Company: 3.5 gigawatts of booked demand for electricity; NextEra Energy getting requests for 5 gigawatts, plus possibly using the Iowa nuclear power plant (Duane Arnold) for potential hyperscaler customers that have made the (wise) decision to build data centers in Iowa.
[Link] Norway signs $21 million deal with HPE for a new national supercomputer. The new supercomputer will be the most powerful in Norway’s history and will significantly boost national research and innovation in AI.
[Link] Lightpath to acquire United Fiber and data assets. Lightpath will add a geographically diverse, high-fiber count network between New York City and Ashburn, VA, and increase the serviceable market in Manhattan by over 20%.
[Link] Satellite telecommunications provider Kepler announced it has validated optical inter-satellite links (OISLs) between two data relay satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO). During a commissioning and early operations phase, Kepler established optical inter-satellite links between two Pathfinder satellites equipped with Space Development Agency (SDA) compatible Tesat SCOT80 optical terminals.
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