Nvidia-Corning partnership expands U.S. optical manufacturing for AI infrastructure

Nvidia is investing $500 million in Corning to expand U.S. fiber optic and optical connectivity manufacturing. Corning plans to increase optical manufacturing capacity tenfold, expand fiber production by more than 50%, and build three advanced manufacturing facilities. (more)

Why it matters for government data centers:
Optical transport is becoming core to AI infrastructure. For government AI, HPC, and classified workloads, the ability to move data across high-density clusters and distributed sites will depend on domestic optical capacity as much as compute availability.