Lumentum CEO: AI Data Center Network Capacity Demands Double a Decade of Global Backbone
Beth_Kindig · x · 2026-08-13
Lumentum CEO Michael Hurlston revealed that for one major hyperscaler, the network capacity required to connect just two AI data center sites is double the total global backbone capacity they built over the entirety of the last decade. This highlights the extreme surge in networking demands driven by AI compute clusters.
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