January 13, 2025

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Biden moves closer to executive order boosting data centers

President Joe Biden is considering issuing an executive order as soon as Friday to accelerate permitting for the construction of data centers to power artificial intelligence on federal land, according to two people familiar with the matter. Read More

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Rural Customers Nearing 90% Access to 100 Mbps Downstream: NTCA Report

Broadband speeds in rural areas continued to track upward last year, according to NTCA’s annual report. Read More

Courts Kill Net Neutrality

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit struck down the FCC’s net neutrality ruling that was passed earlier in 2024. The Court ruled on an appeal filed by a group of major industry trade associations that are against broadband regulation. Read More

Could water unlock the floodgates for faster fiber deployment?

It goes without saying fiber broadband is expensive to deploy – especially if you’re digging underground to get the biggest bang for your buck. But what if there’s another, less resource-intensive way to get fiber flowing (literally) to folks who need it? Read More

A Deep Dive On the BEAD Alternative Technology Guidelines

Rules for the $42.5 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) rural broadband program call for funding recipients to deploy fiber broadband or other “reliable” technologies, except in certain circumstances. The National Telecommunications and Information Association (NTIA) detailed those circumstances — and which alternative technologies can be used — late last week. Here’s what providers need to know about the 15-page guidelines. Read More

CISA Releases the Cybersecurity Performance Goals Adoption Report

Today, CISA released the Cybersecurity Performance Goals Adoption Report to highlight how adoption of Cybersecurity Performance Goals (CPGs) benefits our nation’s critical infrastructure sectors. Originally released in October 2022, CISA’s CPGs are voluntary practices that critical infrastructure owners can take to protect themselves against cyber threats. Read More

Here’s what 2025 has in store for private 5G deployments

With a year plus of proofs-of-concept (POC) in the bag, 5G private networks are primed for commercial uptake in 2025. Early adopters – like Porsche and Tesla – have paved the way for deployments to really get rolling in 2025. But to hear analysts tell it, the market vibe is less hare and more tortoise. Read More

FCC Allows Low-Power 6 GHz Devices

In one of the quiet announcements that might eventually be a huge deal, the FCC voted to open the entire 6 GHz WiFi frequency band to very low-power devices (VLP – just in case you needed another new acronym to remember). The FCC had previously opened up 850 MHz of the spectrum to low-power devices last year, and this new order opens the remaining 350 MHz. This is a huge amount of bandwidth capacity across 1,200 MHz of spectrum. Read More

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CISA Releases the Cybersecurity Performance Goals Adoption Report

I tried hard, but didn’t fix all of cybersecurity, admits outgoing US National Cyber Director

The outgoing leader of the United States’ Office of the National Cyber Director has a clear message for whomever President-elect Trump picks to be his successor: There’s a lot of work still to do. Read More

Biden-Harris Administration Announces Regulatory Framework for the Responsible Diffusion of Advanced Artificial Intelligence Technology

Today, the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) announced controls on advanced computing chips and certain closed artificial intelligence (AI) model weights, alongside new license exceptions and updates to the Data Center Validated End User (VEU) authorization. This new regulation serves key U.S. national security and foreign policy interests and supports the Biden-Harris Administration’s broader strategy to cultivate a secure and trusted technology ecosystem for the responsible use and diffusion of AI. Read More

Data centers drive growth, risk for PG&E, Constellation, NorthWestern: BofA

Electric utilities that can increase earnings related to data center energy demand should see their share prices rise in 2025, according to Bank of America Global Research. Read More

Employment in Data Centers Increased by More Than 60% From 2016 to 2023 But Growth Was Uneven Across the United States

Employment in U.S. data centers — facilities that house the computer systems that store and manage data — increased more than 60% nationally from 2016 to 2023 but growth was uneven across the country, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI). Read More

If 2024 is an indicator, AI will be huge for fiber in 2025

The editors at Fierce Network first began gleaning that there would be a symbiotic relationship between fiber and artificial intelligence (AI) in 2023 when executives from Corning and Zayo said they were seeing an increased demand for fiber, driven by AI. Read More

What may be next after a federal court struck down the FCC’s net neutrality rules

NPR’s Juana Summers speaks with Stanford Law Professor Barbara van Schewick about a federal court’s decision to strike down the Biden administration’s net neutrality protections. Read More

Is that a bird’s nest, a wireless broadband base station, or both?

Everything in Australia is deadly, in this case giant eagles guarding eggs in places wireless broadband techs need to reach Read More

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