Sanofi is investing at three sites in its home country. Minnesota sees its first semiconductor project supported by the CHIPS and Science Act. Work is underway on what will be the second largest port terminal in the Philippines.
Last week data center and fiber network developer DC BLOX announced it had completed its dark fiber route connecting its Myrtle Beach Cable Landing Station (completed last October) to Atlanta. The route runs near Charleston and then through Augusta, Georgia, before reaching major downtown connectivity centers in Atlanta including 56 Marietta Street and then “the growing data center base in Lithia Springs, Georgia,” the company stated, noting that it is “building a dark fiber ring around Atlanta which will connect into two hyperscale-ready data center facilities in development east and west of the city.”
Site Selection explored the phenomenon of dark fiber in a 2015 conversation with Michael Murphy, CEO of New England Fiber (NEF), which was acquired by CBRE in January of 2020, launching the firm’s Network Advisory Services practice where Murphy now serves as executive vice president. We first talked to DC BLOX COO Kurt Stoever about the company’s expansion strategy in the Southeast in November 2019.
Even amid concerns of a national recession, Texas has continued to set a blazing pace of growth, writes M. Ray Perryman, president and CEO of The Perryman Group.
Boeing announced its STEM learning and workforce development investment in the Boeing Tech Center at Port San Antonio in January 2023.
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If you’re looking for the real skinny and real journalism in your region, it pays to turn to the growing number of non-profit online news organizations springing up around the country even as traditional newspapers downsize, scramble and regroup. One of them is San Antonio Report, whose Tracy Idell Hamilton earlier this month penned this compelling account of an internship program at Port San Antonio.
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After a year off for improvements at Lake Cumberland Regional Airport, preparations are underway for the return of the Lake Cumberland Air Show in Kentucky on September 21. “These air entertainers are incredible,” said Chris Girdler, president and CEO of the Somerset-Pulaski Economic Development Authority, “and we love how they showcase our state-of-the-art airport, the aviation industry and The Capital of Lake Cumberland.” A press release said the entertainment will include an F-86 Sabre; the skydive team, Team Fast Trax; a B-25 Mitchell Bomber; the Army Aviation Heritage Foundation, known as the Sky Soldiers; the Next-Gen Eagles Aerobatic Team; and the Smoke On Formation Team.
