Thursday Bytes: Windstream, GTT, T5, MCNC

Four projects from local to global to catch up with:

Windstream Wholesale is expanding its presence up near Boston. They are adding to their New England footprint by leasing some space in Coresite’s B01 faciliy in Somerville MA. Coresite’s B01 is a 253,000sqft facility just a mile or two from downtown Boston and with easy access to the cable landing station in Lynn. The new infrastructure will be ready in early Q4 of this year.

GTT has picked up a bit of multinational business in the manufacturing world. Siegwerk will use their managed services to power the company’s global network operations. Siegwerk manufactures printing inks and coatings for packaging applications and labels, with 65 locations around the world. The deal builds on an existing SD-WAN and security relationship, now including DDoS Mitigation and professional services support.

T5 Data Centers has some major investment plans for the Atlanta metro area. They have acquired 91 acres of land in southern Fulton County, or more specifically in Palmetto. They plan to build a campus there that will scale up to 300MW, targeting AI. It will be T5’s fourth location in and around Atlanta.

MCNC is breaking ground on a fiber project in Sanford NC. Using $11.2M in funds from an NTIA award they picked up last summer, the High Speed Economies for Rural Opportunity (HERO) project will add 209 route miles to MCNC’s footprint, linking Albemarle to Winston-Salem, and Sanford to Jacksonville via Fayetteville. MCNC hopes to finish up HERO next year, putting their statewide footprint above 4,700 miles.

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