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Current Communications sold it’s fiber network in Dallas to TXU who plans to use all of that fiber to monitor power grids.  Thus ends the dream of a 3rd competitor for broadband to compete with the telcos and cable company.  After 10 years and many politician’s promises that power companies would enter the broadband market and create competition, we can put a fork in this technology.

TXU will use the fiber to ping homes to quickly determine when and where power outages occur.  The excess bandwidth will not be used for internet access.

I’ve heard that Digital Realty Trust is in the process of building an enormous data center in Richardson with real estate developer Tod Fobare.  No word on when the facility will be open but I’m told it will be very large – at least 300,000 square feet.  It’s expected to add $160 million to the Richardson tax rolls.

Switch & Data looks like they will be purchased by Equinix. [...]

We are seeing more and more that prices on cabinets in Dallas are creeping closer and closer to $2000 per month. [...]