Prysmian Signs $6.3 Billion Molex Deal for Data-Center Gear
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A €5.5B optical cable deal between Prysmian and Molex underlines that the AI buildout is now constrained by fiber and interconnect, not just GPUs. Data center and cloud buyers should be treating optical capacity and lead times as first-class planning variables alongside chips and power.
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