{"slug": "zayo-enlists-nvidia-to-help-build-dedicated-ai-corridors-across-the-us", "title": "Zayo enlists Nvidia to help build dedicated ‘AI corridors’ across the US", "summary": "Zayo Group Holdings Inc. is partnering with Nvidia Corp. to build dedicated 'AI corridors' across the U.S., adding six new long-haul fiber routes and overbuilding existing networks in 10 high-demand markets to boost bandwidth between AI hubs. The collaboration aims to address fiber connectivity bottlenecks that slow AI infrastructure projects, with new routes connecting data center hubs such as Atlanta to Ashburn, Dallas to Austin, and Denver to Chicago. Nvidia's VP for AI infrastructure engineering, Vladimir Troy, said the network is becoming as critical as compute to AI progress.", "body_md": "Fiber infrastructure giant Zayo is teaming with Nvidia to build more long-haul connections across the U.S. The partnership will focus on building fiber links for “AI corridors” to expand bandwidth between emerging AI hubs.\n\nFiber is one of the top headaches slowing down AI infrastructure projects. Zayo’s work with the chip giant will see the pair deliver six net-new long-haul routes, along with overbuilds of existing network across 10 “high-demand” markets.\n\nBoosting fiber links will allow AI data center operators to improve connectivity between facilities, which comes as site limitations have fueled a growing interest in distributed scale-across networking for inference and training workloads.\n\n\"AI is moving faster than ever and the network is quickly becoming just as critical to that progress as compute itself,\" Vladimir Troy, Nvidia’s VP for AI infrastructure engineering, explained. “Zayo’s work with Nvidia is helping us get ahead of that curve; pairing Zayo's expertise in large-scale network infrastructure with Nvidia AI leadership to build the connectivity backbone the entire ecosystem needs to keep innovating.”\n\nDigitalBridge-owned Zayo has been extending its fiber network, with an [8,000 route-mile expansion](https://www.sdxcentral.com/news/zayo-expands-all-over-the-us-with-8000-route-mile-network/) – the largest in its history – aimed at bolstering AI-driven capacity.\n\nNew routes being constructed will see connections spanning data center hubs, including Atlanta to Ashburn, Virginia; Dallas to Austin, Texas; and Denver to Chicago. The firm completed a new [backbone in the Western U.S](https://www.sdxcentral.com/news/zayo-adds-western-us-link-to-its-fiber-network-puzzle/). last November to further facilitate AI and cloud traffic patterns between computing clusters in Oregon and Nevada through a direct inland path between Umatilla, Prineville, and Reno.\n\nA [Zayo report](https://www.sdxcentral.com/news/ai-data-center-and-neocloud-expansion-fueling-dark-fiber-demand-report/) published in June said demand for long-haul fiber was skyrocketing, with AI data center and neocloud buildouts among the largest buyers.\n\nReferencing neocloud demand, Zayo CEO Steve Smith said these emerging players mark network capacity as an “imperative” as their customers “depend on them to make compute infrastructure accessible as soon as they need it.”\n\n“As AI infrastructure becomes more distributed, access to high-capacity connectivity in the right markets is becoming critical to how quickly providers – like neoclouds – can bring new GPU capacity online and support customer demand,\" Smith added. \"That’s what makes our work with Nvidia so important. Building new AI corridors where infrastructure is actually scaling helps remove a major bottleneck for the broader AI ecosystem.\"", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/zayo-enlists-nvidia-to-help-build-dedicated-ai-corridors-across-the-us", "canonical_source": "https://www.sdxcentral.com/news/zayo-enlists-nvidia-to-help-build-dedicated-ai-corridors-across-the-us/", "published_at": "2026-08-07 11:54:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-09 12:12:25.635785+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-infrastructure", "ai-policy"], "entities": ["Zayo Group Holdings Inc.", "Nvidia Corp.", "Vladimir Troy", "Steve Smith", "DigitalBridge"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/zayo-enlists-nvidia-to-help-build-dedicated-ai-corridors-across-the-us", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/zayo-enlists-nvidia-to-help-build-dedicated-ai-corridors-across-the-us.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/zayo-enlists-nvidia-to-help-build-dedicated-ai-corridors-across-the-us.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/zayo-enlists-nvidia-to-help-build-dedicated-ai-corridors-across-the-us.jsonld"}}