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Quincy, Washington’s growth as a data-center hub is driven by a convergence of factors that make it uniquely suited for AI and hyperscale workloads.
News provided by: Ziply Fiber
Ziply Fiber today announced the completion of its Quincy (Washington) fiber ring, establishing a fully redundant fiber loop designed to provide diverse, high-capacity connectivity throughout the Quincy data center market. Over the past decade, Quincy has emerged as one of the most consequential data center markets in the United States, with significant new capacity continuing to come online and under development. The completion of the ring provides companies building and operating infrastructure in the region with the redundant, high-capacity fiber connectivity needed to support increasingly demanding workloads.
Quincy’s growth is driven by a convergence of factors that make it uniquely suited for AI and hyperscale workloads: abundant hydroelectric power, a cool climate, and direct access to high-capacity fiber infrastructure. As AI training clusters and inference infrastructure scale to unprecedented density, the demand for carrier-grade fiber with true path diversity has become a baseline requirement, not a premium option.
The Quincy fiber ring addresses that requirement directly. By creating two geographically separate fiber paths, the ring eliminates the single points of failure that can expose data center customers to outage risk. For hyperscalers and enterprise operators running AI workloads that cannot tolerate interruption, path diversity is not a value-add — it is a prerequisite.
What the ring delivers
- Fully redundant, geographically diverse fiber paths serving the Quincy data center market
- Secure dark fiber connectivity between data centers, giving customers greater flexibility to design connectivity around their specific infrastructure needs
- Carrier-grade reliability engineered for AI and hyperscale uptime requirements
- Scalable capacity to support the next phase of infrastructure growth in the corridor
- Direct on-ramp to Ziply Fiber’s broader high-capacity and long-haul network
“Quincy has become one of the most important data center markets in the country, and the companies building there need infrastructure that keeps pace with the workloads they are running,” said Chris Gellos, GM of commercial at Ziply Fiber. “This ring gives those operators the path diversity and reliability that AI infrastructure demands.”
The completion of the Quincy fiber ring builds on Ziply Fiber’s ongoing investment in commercial network infrastructure and continued expansion of its long-haul and metro network capacity to serve the growing needs of data center operators, enterprises, and telecommunications carriers.
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