# Verizon 推出"AI Connect"计划：10 亿美元暗光纤连接 Google 数据中心，并将铜线机房改造为小型 AI 推理数据中心

- 来源：Ars Technica：AI（RSS）
- 作者：Jeremy Hsu
- 发布时间：2026-07-28 02:48
- AIHOT 分数：56
- AIHOT 链接：https://aihot.virxact.com/items/cms3la3jj009jroskzj081nx4
- 原文链接：https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/verizon-seeks-ai-profits-with-mini-data-centers-1b-dark-fiber-deal-with-google

## AI 摘要

Verizon 在 2026 年第二季度财报电话会议上披露了价值超 10 亿美元的“AI Connect”计划，包括利用其暗光纤路由连接 Google 数据中心，以及将铜线机房改造为支持 AI 推理工作负载的小型数据中心。CEO Dan Schulman 表示，年底前还将宣布价值“未来数年数十亿美元”的额外 AI 交易，以满足数据中心互联及机器人、远程手术等低延迟推理需求。

## 正文

Verizon is seeking to tap into Silicon Valley’s AI spending in a big way. The telecom giant revealed a deal worth more than $1 billion to link Google data centers using Verizon’s dark fiber routes—and it’s also tearing copper wiring out of central offices as it converts them into small data centers suitable for supporting AI inference workloads.

The telecom company publicly disclosed the Google partnership and data center conversion efforts as part of a new “AI Connect” business initiative during an earnings conference call covering the second quarter of 2026. Verizon also expects to announce additional AI-related deals by the end of the year that would be “worth multiple billions of dollars in revenue over the next several years,” said Dan Schulman, CEO of Verizon Communications, during the earnings call.

“Now it really is about, 'how do you connect data center to data center to assure that you can optimize to maximize the ever-exploding need for compute?'” Schulman said. “And while that data center connectivity demand is exploding, there's an equal amount of desire and demand to power inference models and applications that need ultra-low latency, like robotics or remote surgery, autonomous driving, and move that out into the edge, as opposed to these big, massive data centers.”