Drew Clark

3 weeks ago | broadbandbreakfast.com | Drew Clark

WASHINGTON, May 13, 2025 - The satellite industry generated $293 billion in global revenue in 2024, growing 3% overall despite ongoing challenges in the video sector, according to the annual State of the Satellite Industry Report released Tuesday. The report, commissioned by the Satellite Industry Association (SIA) and prepared by BryceTech, highlighted a particularly strong performance in satellite manufacturing and launch services, which grew 17% and 30% respectively.

1 month ago | broadbandbreakfast.com | Drew Clark

WASHINGTON, May 8, 2025 – After more than 100 days of official silence about the status of digital equity grant funding, President Donald Trump on Thursday afternoon said that the government would be "ending this immediately" and cancelling what he called a $2.5 billion "giveaway." In a post on his Truth Social social network, Trump called the funding under the Digital Equity Act unconstitutional, racist and illegal.

1 month ago | broadbandbreakfast.com | J. Christopher Giancarlo |Drew Clark

Cryptocurrency emerged as an unexpectedly important issue in the 2024 election. President Trump, who branded himself the pro-crypto candidate during his campaign, quickly delivered on promises to reverse what he called the Biden administration's "war" on crypto. Meanwhile, industry leaders who supported Trump's campaign are now actively engaging with Washington policymakers. Are clearer regulatory frameworks in scope?

2 months ago | broadbandbreakfast.com | Drew Clark

When people talk about "the cloud," and the way in which the Internet forms the basis for distributed "cloud computing," most of us don't take the cloud concept literally. But I've come to appreciate that data centers, the literal heart of the Internet, seem to rely in equal measure upon each of the four elements: Earth, Air (or Ether), Fire and Water. Data centers need a plot of real estate. They need the fiber-optic lines that bring Ether-net connectivity.

2 months ago | broadbandbreakfast.com | Drew Clark

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., March 24, 2025 — Investors and lenders are developing innovative financing structures to meet the unprecedented capital demands of the data center industry, according to financial experts speaking Feb. 25 at the MetroConnect conference here.