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.

MOX Networks has acquired spectrum from Google on the Transpacific Topaz subsea cable system, the first-ever fiber cable to connect Canada and Asia. This new cable path, combined with MOX’s network infrastructure portfolio, will bring new wholesale capacity to customers seeking secure, diverse connections between Japan and North America.

Taiwan’s Coast Guard Administration (CGA) is investigating a Chinese-owned freighter Shunxin-39 for allegedly severing a vital undersea communications cable near the island’s northern coast. The incident, reported by Chunghwa Telecom on January 3rd, underscores global concerns about the vulnerability of critical underwater infrastructure.

EDGNEX Data Centers by DAMAC, has announced ambitious plans to enter the United States data center market, marking a pivotal step in its global expansion strategy.