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Fiber installation speed is the constraint hyperscalers rarely advertise but consistently encounter as they build out AI data centers.
Laying and terminating optical cable at density is physical, skilled labor, and it does not compress through software.
3M CEO Bill Brown said the company's optical connectivity technology can cut that installation timeline by up to 85%, a claim that positions the Post-it maker as a genuine equipment supplier to the AI infrastructure buildout.
The physical bottleneck An AI data center at hyperscaler scale runs on optical interconnects.
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