Spectrum Business repurposes Charter's fiber network for AI infrastructure with new Accelerator platform

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Spectrum Business is leveraging Charter Communications' existing fiber infrastructure to launch the AI Accelerator platform, a product that bundles land, power, fiber, and permitting to deliver high-capacity transport between GPU clusters and data centers. The platform targets GPU cloud providers, hyperscalers, on-ramp data centers, and enterprises building their own AI capacity. The article explores how the fiber glut of the 2000s has reversed — demand for AI infrastructure now precedes supply, giving incumbent fiber owners a strategic advantage. It raises the strategic question for CIOs about whether consumer and enterprise AI infrastructure should coexist within the same company as Spectrum expands into security and device layers.

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