Nvidia proposes AI network by renovating U.S. communications facilities… estimated available power at 1 GW

Nvidia has submitted a written proposal to U.S. broadband carrier Brightspeed to convert underused telecom central offices into small AI data centers, with the company estimating roughly 1 GW of available power across the sites, according to Chinese outlet Cailian Press. Under the plan, the retrofitted facilities would be linked into a single inference network spanning as many as 20 U.S. states, targeting the serving of trained AI models rather than training. The 1 GW figure is Nvidia's own calculation, cited by a person familiar with the matter. The move matters because it would let Nvidia tap existing telecom real estate and power capacity to expand AI inference infrastructure without building greenfield data centers. What to watch next is whether Brightspeed signs on and how the sites are phased, since the plan's scale hinges on power availability and carrier cooperation.