For the last eighteen months, the AI infrastructure narrative has been dominated by megacampus headlines, hyperscale power races, and record-setting GPU procurement cycles. The story has been told as if the future of AI belongs exclusively to the largest facilities, the biggest substations, and the densest racks the industry has ever attempted to cool. Power, land, and scale have dominated the spotlight.
But beneath that headline narrative, a consequential shift is playing out across the digital infrastructure ecosystem. AI is no longer just about where the GPUs live. It is now equally about where AI connects—to clouds, to data, to networks, to partners, and increasingly to enterprises deploying real-time applications. That shift is pulling attention back toward a critical layer of the infrastructure stack: carrier hotels, the connectivity-rich facilities that sit at the convergence of network density, enterprise ecosystems, and cloud adjacency. These metro interconnection hubs facilitate the lowest possible latency for applications such as cloud services, virtual reality, autonomous vehicles, and AI inference compute.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Amber Caramella is the Chief Revenue Officer at Netrality Data Centers. With more than 20 years of sales and leadership experience in the digital infrastructure industry, Amber Caramella is responsible for Netrality’s revenue generation strategy and execution, where she oversees sales, marketing, interconnection, network solutions, strategic alliances, and channel partnerships. Prior to joining Netrality, she served as SVP of Sales at Zayo, where she built the company’s global cloud, software, infrastructure, and data center vertical segment.
Caramella is on Bluebird Network’s Board of Directors, Cato Digital’s Board of Directors, and Infrastructure Masons’ Advisory Council. She also serves as iM Women’s Global Executive Sponsor and is part of the Inclusion Committee, working to raise awareness and education for underrepresented groups. Amber’s goal is to increase the visibility and career advancement of women by transforming industry culture and ideology, leading to the development of a diverse pipeline for future industry talent.
