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Not‑for‑profit Network operator TfW Ffeibr (TFW Fibre), which is an arm’s-length initiative owned by Transport for Wales (TfW) and thus the Welsh Government, has announced that their railway based full fibre broadband and Ethernet network has been used to link South Wales directly into one of “Europe’s largest data centre campuses” – connecting Cloud Centres and Vantage Data Centres.
Back in 2024 TfW Ffeibr announced that they had built a new full fibre broadband network alongside several local railways and were offering access to help serve local communities (here). This occurred along the South Wales Metro, partly while carrying out huge infrastructure changes to electrify the railway line in the South Wales Valleys.
In short, the new operator was established to offer internet service providers (ISP) and other network operators access to the new infrastructure via wholesale. Some commercial companies have already reached deals to harness this network, one of the first of which was colocation and server hosting provider Cloud Centres Networks.