Tuesday Roundup: RETN, Serverfarm, Nokia, 123NET

Four bits of infrastructure expansion news from the US and Europe:

RETN has added another route to Italy, strengthening its presence in southern Europe. The new 300km fiber link connects Zurich with Milan, leveraging a PoP at Milan’s Caldera campus. The route bypasses traditional paths via a 75km dark fiber connection to the Swiss border at Chiasso via Drezzo and on the Swiss side runs along the railway.

Serverfarm has made an inorganic move into Houston, Texas. Backed by funds from their majority shareholders at Manulife Investment Management, they have acquired two data center campuses totaling some 250 acres. HOU1 has 350,000 square feet and HOU2 has just under a half million square feet of space, each with on-site substations and room for expansion.

Nokia has picked up an IP/optical backbone deal with CoreWeave. The AI hyperscaler will be deploying a wide range of Nokia’s gear in data centers across the US and Europe as it build out its global infrastructure. The network will take aim at supporting the compute-intensive and complex workloads required for AI-centered applications.

And 123NET says its Michigan footprint now reaches 5000 commercial buildings across the state. The independent fiber network operator has been steadily expanding both its breadth and depth across the state. Of course of that 5K, Detroit surely gets the lions share of attention, but 123NET is in pretty much all of Michigan’s major metro areas.

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