Connectivity: The key differentiator behind successful AI cloud strategies
Why your choice of networking infrastructure will give you a competitive advantage for rapidly deploying AI services.
An AI industry in flux
Advances in AI technology, demand and investment strategies are typical features of a market that seems to change from week to week. Set in this context, there is no time to stand still. Especially when you consider there’s such a wide range of variables that can change in a short space of time.
New market players
Traditional datacenter operators, hyperscalers and enterprises are being joined by well-funded providers of AI infrastructure. These ‘neoscalers’ include those offering GPU-as-a-service, LLM operations platforms or cloud, edge, colocation and datacenter services.
New AI services
From iterative LLMs, real-time multimodal analytics and agentic AI to GPU-as-a-service, sector offerings are broadening at pace.
New hardware
The race for ever-greater compute power is driving the rapid evolution of chips and dedicated neural processing units.
New locations
Huge investments in datacenter real estate are spurred on by competition for resources and the emergence of data sovereignty as a major issue.
New incentives
Government strategies to attract capital, support jobs and boost growth are additional levers for the emergence of AI clusters.
Where EXA Infrastructure comes in
Networking technologies can make or break AI strategies. At EXA, we help neoscalers, hyperscalers, enterprises and datacenter operators of all kinds to quickly build the high-capacity connectivity services they need to succeed.
What makes this possible is something no company new to AI-ready networking can quickly replicate: we own the infrastructure.
So, instead of waiting for it to be built, you can rely on our carrier-grade backbone that’s already purpose-engineered for heavy AI data flows.
414MW vs. 133MW
Signings for AI-focused colocation capacity in Europe more than trebled in the first nine months of 2025 compared to the same period in 2024.[1]
[1]CBRE, Signings for AI Data Centre Capacity in Europe, November 2025