Nebraska on the Powerplay: Why Hyperscalers Are Choosing the Heartland
In the race to build digital infrastructure capable of supporting the ever-growing demands of data-intensive applications, the Midwest has emerged as a strategic hotspot. At the heart of this evolution is Nebraska—a state traditionally known for its agricultural roots, now rapidly becoming a preferred destination for hyperscalers. The reasons behind this Heartland hyperscaler shift are […]
Exploring Digital Infrastructure in 2025: Bill Severn Offers Insights on JSA Virtual Roundtable
In the recent JSA Virtual Roundtable held on November 20, “Digital Infrastructure Trends, Innovations, New Markets & More: What Will Define 2025?”, a group of amazing industry leaders convened to discuss the future of digital infrastructure. Our own Bill Severn, CEO and President of 1623 Farnam, provided valuable insights into the evolving landscape. Severn emphasized […]
A Partners in Peering Rewind: Highlights from the Series So Far
When we launched Partners in Peering, we were excited to kick things off and start delivering critical information from our partners, peers and customers to you and everyone else in this connectivity and digital infrastructure industry. Now, with a number of episodes under our belt, we think it’s time to look back on what we’ve […]
How AI is Driving a New Age for Edge Data Centers
Artificial Intelligence has been dominating the IT sphere for some time now — it’s redefining how we build our infrastructure, changing the nature of power procurement and delivering massive amounts of value to customers and end users. Many of the most well-known AI applications include anything from autonomous vehicles to smart city infrastructure, and as […]
The Role of a Regional Data Center in a Hyperscale Landscape
Among the innumerable data centers that now span our globe and the countless organizations across technology, healthcare, government, education and beyond that leverage them, there remains a small group of providers at the top. These hyperscalers, operating massive footprints of data centers and delivering expansive cloud solutions at scale, have long dominated the digital infrastructure […]
Why Interconnection Facilities Are Economic Catalysts
IT infrastructure is a core part of our global economies and business operations — but interconnection facilities take these benefits one (or many) steps further. In fact, much like how data centers support regional economies, create jobs, drive investment and generate supply and demand for new services, interconnection facilities offer all of these same advantages […]
The Death of ‘Fly-Over’ Data Hubs: How Data Center Capacity Pushes for New Horizons
As stories about AI, ML, HPC and the like continue to flood our news and social channels, this will come as a shock to no one: Data center absorption is up. Now, it seems like space and power is snapped up about as soon as it can be deployed thanks to the race to carve […]
Get the Inside Scoop on Interconnection and Capacity from Our President and CEO
Those that have been keeping up with our recent content know that we’re particularly interested in the industry dynamics and challenges around capacity. In an AI-dominated world with power-hungry applications and huge capacity demands, where and how are data centers sourcing these mission-critical resources? Furthermore, as businesses become more mobile and agile, and as footprints […]
AI, ML and More Are Losing Out in Capacity Shortages
There’s no denying that advanced applications like Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and High-Performance Computing are having their heyday. Groundbreaking use cases from these intelligent platforms are enabling businesses and teams around the world to enhance resilience with predictive maintenance, personalize customer experience and a whole lot more. Within this single article alone, we see IBM […]
New Peers, New Opportunities: A Peek into the IX Ecosystem
Since the dawn of the internet’s astounding connection capabilities, the world has opened up in new and previously unimaginable ways, paving new inroads for innovation and collaboration. Yet, since the advent of this world wide web, it’s had its foibles too. Yes, the internet and the connectivity that creates it is full of eccentricities (and […]