Dear valued Clients and Partners,
Thank you for your business and collaboration this year!
May 2026 be filled with growth, innovation, and success for you and your team. We look forward to supporting your evolving needs and achieving new milestones together!
In This Issue…
- A Continuing Industry Focus on AI
- 60 Hudson and Quantum Updates
- Enhanced Connectivity Capabilities @ NYI Chicago
- Building a Cohesive, Secure Edge Strategy
- Supporting the NY Metro Tech Community
- Top 10 LinkedIn Influencers
- Nomad Futurist: Engaging the Next Generation
- Connect with Us at PTC 2026
A Continuing Industry Focus on AI
This Fall, NYI participated in a series of industry conferences focused on the latest AI trends, challenges and breakthroughs including Infrastructure/SUMMIT, the OCP Global Summit and The AI Summit New York. These dynamic events fostered collaborative problem-solving among a broad spectrum of participants, particularly around key issues such as meeting the increasing demand for power and sustainable solutions. As AI adoption accelerates, connectivity-rich regional data centers like NYI are set to play a critical role in effectively delivering AI capabilities, particularly AI inferencing requirements.
60 HUDSON STREET UPDATES
Facility Upgrades
NYI continues to make upgrades to our 60 Hudson Street facilities including several updates to the infrastructure including commissioning of new UPSes.
➡️ Learn more about NYI @ 60 Hudson Street
60 Hudson is Where the Quantum Future Begins!
Our partner QTD Systems has achieved a milestone on its mission to bridge quantum and classical infrastructure under one roof with the installation of Qunnect’s Carina — the world’s first turnkey entanglement-based quantum networking system. This marks the first data center deployment of this groundbreaking quantum networking technology. Carina operates at room temperature and creates quantum networking capabilities over existing commercial telecom fiber, generates, distributes, and stores entanglement photons — essential building blocks for the future quantum internet.
This is a major step toward a functional quantum data center in New York City, allowing customers to connect, build and innovate on a quantum network. QTD is the first data center to join GothamQ, a metro-scale quantum network that currently sends entangled photons under the streets of New York City, connecting New York University, Columbia University, Stony Brook University, Brookhaven
National Laboratory and Qunnect.
Enhanced Connectivity Capabilities and New Internet Exchange @NYI Chicago
We’re excited to share that Open Pipes, a nonprofit initiative focused on building open, neutral, and community-driven Internet Exchange infrastructure, is expanding neutral Internet exchange capacity at NYI Chicago (in Oak Brook, IL), bringing a new nonprofit IX to the heart of the Midwest. Designed to support scalable interconnection, the Chicago Open Pipes exchange gives networks, content providers, and cloud platforms a cost-effective way to peer locally while reducing latency and transit dependency.
The exchange is being built by 20C, which is deploying carrier-grade gear and delivering 800G of initial connectivity into the fabric at 800 Jorie. Built using their open-source FullCtl software and modern tooling, combining real capacity from day one with community-driven governance to create a long-term interconnection platform for the region, not just another IX.
➡️ To find out more about Open Pipes and their activities in Chicago,
visit openpipes.net or contact peering@openpipes.net
Supporting the NY metro tech community
As a longtime supporter of the tech community in the New York metropolitan area, NYI was delighted to serve as a sponsor of the inaugural NYog event on November 13th, in the heart of Soho, NYC.
NYog (New York Operators Group) fosters collaboration and networking among engineers, operators and technology professionals and helps cultivate the next generation of talent to ensure continued innovation and advancement in network operations and telecommunications.
Building a Cohesive, Secure Edge Strategy
On November 4th, NYI COO Phillip Koblence joined industry expert Jonathan Fischer and DCD host Zoe Turner in the Data Center Dynamics Broadcast: “Building Scalability and Resilience into your Edge Roadmap.” The discussion focused on what it takes to develop a cohesive and secure edge strategy that supports evolving workloads across diverse environments.
Top 10 Data Center Influencers
Our Co-Founder & COO Phillip Koblence was honored once again to be selected as one of the Top 10 worldwide data center influencers on LinkedIn per Data Centre Magazine.
Nomad Futurist: Engaging the Next Generation
In recent months, the Nomad Futurist Foundation, co-founded by Phillip Koblence and Nabeel Mahmood, scaled its global efforts to address the industry’s talent shortage by inspiring and creating opportunities for the next generation.
✔️ Launched its first ever Student Track at the OCP Global Summit in Santa Clara. 75 students and educators joined the Summit for a full day of learning, networking, and exploration, featuring Nomad speakers alongside leaders from the industry’s top companies.
✔️ Invited 50 students from the Imperial College London, one of the world’s leading universities for climate, technology and business to the DCD>Connect | London conference where they attended a dedicated session on Careers in Digital Infrastructure and were introduced to top industry leaders.
➡️ Learn more about the Nomad Futurist Foundation
Connect with us at PTC 2026!
We look forward to supporting your evolving infrastructure, network, and interconnection needs in 2026. If you plan to attend PTC in Honolulu in January, we look forward to seeing you there!
Please stay connected!
Email us at info@nyi.net, send a request through the NYI Help Desk or follow us on LinkedIn or Facebook.
