Available is partnering with wireless infrastructure company Crown Castle, which owns, operates, and leases more than 40,000 cell towers and roughly 90,000 miles of fiber.
“Our strategy is to industrialize and modularize deployment by building on telecom co-location and pre-existing physical infrastructure rather than greenfield hyperscale construction,” said Medina.
Some initial sites are live (the company declined to say how many, due to “final contractual and commissioning milestones”) and 30 cities are expected to come online by early July. Available is prioritizing dense urban corridors, and early adoption has begun in “major Northeast corridors with a path to nationwide rollout,” Medina explained.
The company’s infrastructure will be used by Strata Expanse, which specializes in 60 to 90 day AI data center deployments, and incorporated into Strata’s new full-stack, end-to-end Amphix AI Infrastructure Platform.
The neocloud architecture will run up to 48 GPUs per site, bringing AI inferencing to the edge. Many sites will be pre-integrated with IBM’s watsonx; others will be AI-agnostic, allowing enterprises to run their preferred models.
According to Available, Project Qestrel will provide:
