LSC Expands into Indianapolis Data Center Market
Light Source Communications (LSC) announced its entry into the Indianapolis data center market with a new 240-mile dark fiber network. The route is designed to support hyperscalers and other large enterprises that require high-capacity, low-latency connectivity.
- The new 240-mile network is composed of five high-capacity fiber rings that will span approximately 20 municipalities in the Indianapolis metropolitan area. - LSC's project is driven by the explosive growth in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and High-Performance Computing (HPC), and the company has already signed multiple global hyperscalers as anchor tenants for the new network. - The entire fiber route will be underground, which provides greater reliability and network security, and is slated for completion by the third quarter of 2027. - Indiana has become a major hub for hyperscale data centers, with Amazon, Google, and Meta collectively investing billions in new facilities across the state to meet the demands of AI. - Meta is developing a $10 billion, 1-gigawatt data center campus in Lebanon, just 30 miles from Indianapolis, marking one of its largest infrastructure investments to date. - Amazon is investing an additional $15 billion in Northern Indiana for new data center campuses to support its cloud computing and AI services. - The choice of Indiana for these large-scale projects is influenced by factors like robust power grid availability and a central geographic location that offers symmetrical low latency to major US metro areas. - The Indianapolis market already has a dense connectivity ecosystem, with carrier hotels like the Indy Telcom Center providing access to numerous long-haul and metro network operators.
