Lumos announced its inaugural expansion into Alabama, its sixth state of operation. This expansion will lay over 1,300 miles of fiber, providing reliable, high-speed internet to underserved communities and families throughout the Birmingham Metro.

St. Louis-based Gateway Fiber and Kansas City-based WANRack are announcing a merger that combines the resources of both companies into a national FTTX platform serving residents, businesses, and schools across 25 US states.

ChatGPT maker OpenAI is searching for potential sites across the U.S. to build advanced data centers for the $500 billion Project Stargate. Reports suggest that OpenAI is considering 16 states that have shown interest in making massive data center campuses to support President Trump’s AI (artificial intelligence) vision. Texas is already identified as the “flagship” data center site, with construction work underway in Abilene.

The buildout will deliver Ezee Fiber's multi-gig fiber internet to residential and business customers across the greater Puget Sound region and throughout the state, starting with Kent, WA. The announcement was made by Matt Marino, Chief Executive Officer, Ezee Fiber.

Reliance Industries is building the world's largest data center, which will power AI infrastructure and support India’s digital and AI growth.

Harbor Link Holdings LLC (Harbor Link) has received $45 Million from Millennium Syndicated Holdings (MSH) and ROC Venture Group (ROC) to complete its 40-mile fiber optic network along the I-95 corridor, connecting Baltimore and the Washington DC metro area.

Alaska Power & Telephone Company (AP&T) will own a majority interest in SEALink Networks, Inc. (SNI). SNI is currently developing a cable landing station for subsea cables in Westport, Washington. These cables, also known as submarine cables, are fiber optic cables laid on the ocean floor and used to transmit data between continents or across large bodies of water, including providing connectivity for Alaska to the lower 48 states.

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.