Arelion has opened five new points of presence (PoPs) in the key regional datacentre markets of Reno, Fargo, Houston, Atlanta and Miami.
The global enterprise connectivity provider believes demand for neocloud and artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure is expected to grow significantly, and cited data from Structure Research estimating that the global neocloud and AI infrastructure market will reach $186bn by 2030 as critical IT capacity scales from approximately 2.3GW to 150GW.
As these requirements evolve across industries including financial services, biotech, energy and manufacturing, Arelion says its mission is to provide the scalable connectivity needed for AI model development, inference and other compute-intensive applications.
Through its existing North American backbone, Arelion has relationships with regional infrastructure providers for targeted new network construction, and can extend high-capacity connectivity to emerging compute campuses. This deployment model has been used to enable neocloud providers to bring services online while giving enterprises and other cloud users low-latency access to the graphics processing unit (GPU) infrastructure required for compute-intensive AI workloads.
The global enterprise connectivity provider believes that as it takes its AI superhighway to a growing ecosystem of neocloud and GPU-focused compute campuses, its new PoPs will provide enterprises with high-capacity, diverse connectivity, faster service deployment and rapid service delivery, supporting continued AI infrastructure growth.
The company believes that among the key benefits for enterprises will be reduced latency and improved redundancy when moving workloads between on-premise infrastructure, cloud environments and distributed GPU resources, without requiring direct investment in regional buildout.
“We’re seeing significant customer demand in these regions as AI infrastructure expands beyond established datacentre hubs, with neoclouds and GPU-focused providers bringing compute capacity into new markets,” said Art Kazmierczak, director of strategic sales and network development at Arelion.
“Our North American AI superhighway gives these providers the capacity, diversity and speed-to-deployment they need to bring services online quickly, while enabling enterprises and cloud users to move large AI data sets and workloads between their networks, cloud environments and distributed GPU resources.”
The expansion brings connectivity to the emerging GPU infrastructure market and major hyperscale and enterprise markets, as well as support for both growing regional compute demand and subsea connectivity to Latin America and the Caribbean.
The Reno PoP extends Arelion’s AI superhighway into a growing GPU compute and hyperscale capacity market, with two locations supporting greater network diversity, while in Fargo, the PoP takes the Arelion network to large-scale infrastructure supporting GPU and high-performance computing workloads.
Houston’s new presence will enhance the current network in a major technology and energy market, supporting demand for AI and other data-intensive applications. The Atlanta presence broadens Arelion’s footprint in one of North America’s largest datacentre markets, supporting continued hyperscale and AI infrastructure growth.
From Miami, Arelion is confident its new PoP can strengthen its South Florida footprint as a whole, supporting regional compute demand and connectivity between North American networks and subsea systems serving Latin America and the Caribbean.
From a technological basis, Arelion provides IP Transit, 400G EVPL Ethernet, Wavelengths, and Managed Optical Fiber Network services. These offerings are designed to enable terabit-scale connectivity and multiple paths for customers moving large data sets between GPU clusters and related digital infrastructure.
