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Bill Gates made recent headlines by predicting that AI will replace doctors, teachers, and other highly skilled roles within the next decade. In fact, he believes in the next 10 years, humans won’t be needed for most things. He called it the dawn of the “free intelligence” era — a world where access to expert-level medical advice, tutoring, and more becomes universally available, instantly, and at no cost.
It’s a seismic shift. But beneath the buzz, there’s a more grounded reality: AI runs on infrastructure. Read more.
The problem? Today’s networks weren’t built for AI at this scale. Legacy infrastructure is struggling to keep up with the sheer amount of data AI requires. If the infrastructure can’t keep up, businesses face downtime, rising costs, and missed opportunities
More servers and more power aren’t enough to support the AI data center boom. To sustain AI’s rapid growth, and ensure enterprises can fully leverage it, we need to build more modern long-haul networks – faster, denser, and more resilient than ever before. These networks are the key to seamlessly transporting massive AI workloads between hyperscale data centers. As data centers expand and rack densities soar, networks must scale with them.
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Alissa Clousing, Managing Director, Zayo Global Reach
The world’s economy doesn’t just run on oil anymore — it runs on fiber, and the arteries of global trade aren’t shipping lanes, they’re subsea cables.
Subsea cables, Waves, and DIA aren’t just plumbing, they’re the critical arteries of global trade, AI innovation, and real-time enterprise operations. Global bandwidth demand isn’t just growing — it’s accelerating into the unknown, and legacy procurement models aren’t built for the pace we’re heading into. The world’s hunger for bandwidth is accelerating so fast that even the most ambitious buildouts can’t predict just how much capacity we’ll need.
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AI Number of the Week:
65%
of organizations are now regularly using generative AI
[Source: McKinsey]
This is nearly double the adoption rate from just ten months ago, according to McKinsey’s latest Global Survey on AI.
This surge in AI adoption isn’t just experimentation, companies are already seeing real business impact, with gen AI delivering both cost savings and revenue growth. And the momentum is only building.
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Future Forecast:
A Look at Satellite
The rise of satellite internet—driven by ambitious projects like Starlink—has reignited global conversations about how we connect. A constellation of low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites promises global coverage and near-instant deployment, offering hope for closing the digital divide in even the most remote corners of the world.
But as the satellite race accelerates, one question keeps surfacing: Will satellite internet replace traditional infrastructure?
In a word: no. Read more.