Zayo builds backbone for Western US AI growth | Computer Weekly

""While others plan, we're building the infrastructure that makes AI possible," said Bill Long, chief product and strategy officer at Zayo. "Without connectivity, datacentres and AI factories are just expensive refrigerators: cold boxes of compute with no way for data to get in or out. We're delivering the capacity and reach where it's needed to ensure AI can work, scale and innovate without limits.""

"Built with SMF-28 fibre, multiple conduits and 13 Zayo-owned ILAs, the route is engineered for low latency and high fibre count to support the increasing vast workloads of AI and cloud. With its completion, the UPR route integrates into Zayo's existing West Coast long-haul and subsea network systems, extending connectivity across the western US and strengthening the backbone supporting the region's growing AI corridor."

"The comms infrastructure provider believes the future of AI will be built as much in the ground as it is in the labs and datacentres, and considers its new route as establishing a backbone for how the western US connects, drives and scales AI data, compute and cloud environments."

Zayo completed a 622-mile Umatilla–Prineville–Reno (UPR) long-haul fibre corridor to support AI and cloud operators in Oregon, California and Nevada. The route is built with SMF-28 fibre, multiple conduits and 13 Zayo-owned ILAs and is engineered for low latency and high fibre count to accommodate growing AI workloads. The UPR corridor integrates with Zayo's West Coast long-haul and subsea networks and links into existing dark fibre systems to provide speed, reliability and scale. The fully owned and operated route connects major regional AI and cloud hubs and forms part of Zayo's strategy to expand critical AI infrastructure across the US.

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