Metro Connect Fall Stage

Throughout the AI power rush, data center connectivity has been relegated as access to power became the number one driver of site selection. This push into less connected, power abundant geographies has necessitated long-haul greenfield fiber builds.  With the growth of inference and increasing importance of latency we are seeing the importance of connectivity in site selection increase.

• How are operators evaluating greenfield fiber builds to under connected sites with fewer tenants?
• Does the shift to inference return us to a fiber first world of site selection?
• How are fiber operators evaluating the opportunity posed by a shift to a more distributed data center landscape?