Mexican operator C3ntro Telecom opened an edge data center with capacity of up to 2MW in Hermosillo, Sonora, as part of the TIKVA project, a 2,500km fiber optic network that will connect Querétaro, in central Mexico, with Phoenix, Arizona.
According to the company, the facility will boost connectivity for sectors such as manufacturing and semiconductors and will strengthen digital infrastructure in northern Mexico. The company said the opening positions Sonora “as a strategic node of the northern corridor.”
The ceremony was attended by Sonora governor Alfonso Durazo and C3ntro Telecom founder Simón Masri Askenazi.
TIKVA crosses eight Mexican states. Of the network’s 2,500km, 2,150km are in Mexico and 350km in the US. The route runs along the Pacific coast, passes through Aguascalientes, León, Irapuato, Celaya and Querétaro, and crosses the border at Nogales, Sonora, toward Phoenix.
The network will have 32 amplification points and 288 fibers, with capacity for 100, 400 and 800Gbps services, as well as dark fiber and dedicated wavelengths. C3ntro Telecom classifies it as “hyperscaler” grade, ready for artificial intelligence workloads.
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In September, the company opened the first stage of TIKVA in Aguascalientes, with an investment of 300mn pesos (US$20mn) in that section, which includes a data center, a signal amplification site and more than 100km of buried fiber.
The first of the 34 edge data centers planned along the corridor went into operation there. The facilities are designed to reduce latency for local applications.
TIKVA was announced in April 2025, with commercial launch scheduled for 4Q26. As of September, physical progress on the project stood at around 85%. The initiative has syndicated financing from French development institution Proparco and German development institution DEG, part of the KfW group.
In May, C3ntro Telecom joined Telconet’s CSN-2 submarine cable project. The cable will connect Veracruz with the Apalachee Beach area in northern Florida, with a branch to Galveston, Texas. The two companies agreed to build a new terrestrial segment of nearly 590km between Querétaro and Veracruz to integrate CSN-2 with TIKVA.
According to the companies, the submarine and terrestrial infrastructure aims to directly connect some of the main data center ecosystems in the Americas, including Phoenix, Texas, Georgia, Virginia, Florida and Querétaro.
C3ntro Telecom presents the project as part of the response to nearshoring, which has raised demand for cross-border digital infrastructure between Mexico and the US.
Source: https://www.bnamericas.com/en/news/c3ntro-telecom-opens-edge-data-center-in-sonora-for-tikva-network
