The Next Infrastructure Land Rush: Zayo and Nvidia Partner to Lay 8,000 Miles of AI-Driven Fiber

By Shane Snider Senior News Writer, Data Center Knowledge August 13, 2026 Executive Overview The explosive global demand for artificial intelligence has fundamentally shifted from a race for raw computing power and electricity to a massive, structural land rush for dedicated network connectivity. As data centers balloon into multi-hundred-megawatt "AI factories" pushed out into secondary…

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The AI Gold Rush’s Hidden Bottleneck: How Data Centers Are Redefining Global Critical Mineral Markets

Executive Overview The exponential expansion of artificial intelligence (AI) has triggered an unprecedented infrastructural buildout, shifting global attention away from pure software algorithms and toward the physical foundations powering the next technological revolution. Beneath the sleek facades of hyperscale data centers, server racks, and liquid-cooling networks lies a heavy reliance on foundational critical minerals. Copper,…

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