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Recent Nebraska data center news

• Mar 13, 2026

  OPINION: Care about the environment

  Jocelynn Messersmith urges readers to reduce environmental harm by limiting non-essential uses of artificial intelligence and adopting everyday sustainable behaviors.

  • Main action: The opinion piece calls for reducing non-essential AI use (criticizing large-scale content generation and “busy work”), and adopting lifestyle choices like carpooling, public transportation, biking, walking, buying fewer things, shopping secondhand, and repairing items.
  • Background/details: The article cites environmental harms linked to AI and supporting infrastructure — data centres producing electronic waste, high water use, reliance on critical minerals, and large electricity consumption; it also references resources from UNEP and WWF and reiterates the long-standing advice to reduce, reuse and recycle.
• Mar 4, 2026

  Data Center Jobs: Engineering, Construction, Commissioning, Sales, Field Service and Facility Tech Jobs Available in Major Data Center Hotspots

  Data Center Frontier, in partnership with Pkaza, has posted the latest roundup of data center career opportunities on the Data Center Frontier jobs board.

  • Main announcement: Data Center Frontier and Pkaza published 13 current data center job listings across the United States (examples include Electrical Applications Engineer, Electrical Commissioning Engineer, Production Architect – Data Center Facilities Design, Director of Construction, and Data Center Facility Operations Director), with many roles offering remote options or multiple city locations (e.g., Pittsburgh, Dallas, New York, Ashburn, Columbus, Boulder, Chesterton, Augusta).
  • Background and details: Listings are provided by/for mission-critical and colo/hyperscale sectors and emphasize reliability, energy efficiency, sustainable design and LEED expertise; roles cover engineering design & commissioning firms, electrical contracting, general contracting and data center developers, and include positions supporting AI/HPC infrastructure and brownfield conversions.
• Feb 23, 2026

  1623 Farnam Partners with Bridged Broadband to Expand Diverse Midwest Connectivity

  1623 Farnam announced a strategic partnership with Bridged Broadband to establish Bridged Broadband presence at 1623 Farnam and extend carrier-diverse routes from Omaha into Kansas City and rural Missouri.

  • Partnership announcement: 1623 Farnam and Bridged Broadband have established an interconnection at 1623 Farnam enabling carrier-diverse routes between Omaha, Kansas City and rural Missouri; Bridged Broadband is deploying an 800G DWDM backbone with full IP/MPLS integration to provide scalable, low-latency, resilient connectivity.
  • Background and concrete details: Bridged Broadband’s Omaha-to-Missouri routes are fully diverse from national carrier networks; 1623 Farnam also announced a second interconnection facility in Omaha planned to be operational in mid-2028 with at least 5MW of capacity, expanding its regional interconnection footprint.
• Jan 28, 2026

  Idaho Gets NIST Approval to Advance Broadband Deployment

  Idaho received NIST approval to advance deployment of its $583 million BEAD allocation.

  • NIST approval received: Idaho awarded 92 projects to 23 subgrantees, targeting 92,500 homes and businesses; approved deployment mix 50% fiber, 25% fixed wireless, 25% low-Earth-orbit satellite; after deployment and administrative costs the state identified about $110 million potentially eligible for non-deployment uses, subject to NTIA approval. Idaho plans to seek approval to direct non-deployment funds toward additional internet exchange points, regional traffic-routing hubs, and public safety communications (including advanced 911).
  • Background / other states: Washington has a $1.24 billion BEAD allocation across 235 project areas with a roughly even mix of fiber, fixed wireless, and satellite; states are pressing to use non-deployment funds to accelerate permitting and harden networks by reusing municipal infrastructure (e.g., Spokane County’s 20 public safety towers with “enormous capacity”). Nebraska approved a BEAD mix of ~50% fixed wireless, 40% satellite, 10% fiber, with approvals from NIST and the U.S. Department of Commerce, and intends to advocate non-deployment funding for agricultural technology, secure computing, and artificial intelligence infrastructure.
• Jan 28, 2026

  Internet Exchange Peering for Enterprises: Lower Egress, Better UX with Omaha IX

  1623 Farnam promotes Omaha IX as a practical peering option for enterprises.

  • Main announcement/action: 1623 Farnam positions Omaha IX (the Omaha Internet Exchange) as a regional Internet Exchange that enterprises can join from a colocated rack to reduce cloud egress costs, improve latency and increase resilience; enterprises at 1623 Farnam can connect to the IX via physical or virtual cross-connects and configure BGP peering to selected networks.
  • Background and implementation details: The article outlines operational steps (physical/virtual cross connect, BGP peering sessions, incremental traffic shift), notes access to more than 60 carriers and network providers at 1623 Farnam, and describes the IX as complementing private cloud on-ramps, private interconnects, MPLS/SD-WAN and other connectivity models.
• Jan 16, 2026

  1623 Farnam Expands Omaha Footprint With Second Midwest Interconnection Facility

  1623 Farnam has closed on a second interconnection facility in Omaha, planned to be operational in mid-2028.

  • Announcement: 1623 Farnam has closed on a second interconnection facility in Omaha that is planned to be operational in mid-2028 and will deliver at least 5MW of capacity to expand its regional interconnection footprint.
  • Details & context: The new facility will complement 1623 Farnam’s flagship carrier hotel, extend interconnection density and network diversity, and is presented by parent company BERKS Group as strengthening Omaha as a Midwest interconnection hub; additional availability and connectivity details will be shared as the project progresses.
• Jan 15, 2026

  1623 Farnam in Review: 2025 Milestones and What’s Ahead for Connectivity in 2026

  1623 Farnam announced its 2025 milestones and its positioning for connectivity in 2026.

  • Mid-2025 facility expansion: 1623 Farnam completed a strategic expansion in mid-2025 that added 1.5 MW of IT capacity and 280 new cabinets, strengthened its carrier- and cloud-neutral interconnection fabric, and supported increased edge deployments and cross-connect capacity. The Omaha IX saw growth including the Iowa Communications Network (ICN) tapping into the Omaha IX to expand statewide reach.
  • Cloud, peering and wireless capabilities: 1623 Farnam emphasized Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute private connectivity, access to 60+ carriers and Google Cloud on-ramps, and its role as a backhaul and aggregation hub for Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) and wireless packet core placement. The article frames 2026 as a year for optimization around edge-first architectures, IX-based traffic exchange, hybrid/multi-cloud normalization and wireless backhaul efficiency.
• Jan 14, 2026

  Lawmakers Warn Digital Trade Rules Will Shape U.S. AI Leadership

  The House Ways and Means Committee held a hearing on “Maintaining American Innovation and Technology Leadership” on Jan. 14, 2026.

  • The hearing concluded that foreign digital trade barriers (including digital services taxes and data localization mandates) and weakened IP enforcement threaten the fiber networks and data centers that underpin U.S. AI, cloud services, and digital exports; witnesses included Nigel Corey (Crowell Global Advisors) and former USPTO Director Andrei Iancu.
  • Background and next steps:
    • Policy actions under consideration: review of digital trade provisions under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement and ongoing international negotiations on cross-border data flows.
    • Countries cited:China, European Union, Canada, Australia.
    • Date & location: Jan. 14, 2026, Washington, D.C.; Agenda/subject: “Maintaining American Innovation and Technology Leadership” (focus on digital trade, data flows, and patent reform).
• Jan 7, 2026

  Patented: Making a Degradable Ice Straw and More North Texas Inventive Activity

  Prive Products of Dallas has received a newly granted U.S. patent for a system and method to make degradable drinking straws from ice, invented by Thomas Surgent (Patent No. 12484726).

  • Main announcement: Prive Products, LLC — Patent No. 12484726 (Application No. 17609970 filed 05/16/2020; 2026 days app to issue) — describes a system with tubes extending into a reservoir, a connecting bar delivering hot and cold fluid into the tubes, and a resulting hollow ice straw that can cool a beverage as liquid passes through the straw. The abstract states: “A system and method for making degradable drinking straws made of ice (or other frozen liquid(s)).”
  • Background & roundup details: Dallas-Fort Worth was ranked No. 9 among 250 metros for the week of 12/2/25 with 134 patents granted. The article is a patent roundup (announcement/summary) listing top assignees (e.g., Texas Instruments Inc. — 15 patents), notable grants (Bank of America, Dell, IBM, Verily, Lennox, Halliburton, etc.), and includes patent abstracts, assignees, inventor locations, application numbers and days from application to issue. For partnerships or deals, the article provides assignee and patent filing/issue dates but no implementation timelines beyond application and issue dates.
• Jan 6, 2026

  Ohio EPA reviewing data center discharge permits amid water quality concerns

  The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency is reviewing a proposal to issue five-year permits allowing eligible data centers to discharge cooling water into Ohio’s lakes and streams.

  • Main action: The draft would allow eligible data centers to obtain five-year permits to release cooling water; the permit text includes a ban on discharges within 500 yards upstream of a public water intake, prohibits discharges into groundwater and lakes other than Lake Erie, and uses standard NPDES “lowering” language for new or expanded discharges. The article states a single data center can use up to half a billion gallons of water daily for cooling.
  • Background and details:Environmental groups (Ohio Valley Environmental Group, Ohio River Foundation) raise concerns about PFAS contamination and limited capacity at rural treatment centers to filter contaminants; the Ohio EPA responded that permits include strict limits and monitoring and that data centers are not expected to be PFAS sources. The piece notes H2Ohio does not set discharge rules, mentions Bloom Energy as an alternative technology, and provides a public comment link (https://ohioepa.commentinput.com/?id=csDN8pRrg).