{"id":988395,"date":"2026-01-29T08:10:53","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T02:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=988395"},"modified":"2026-01-29T08:22:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T02:52:24","slug":"meta-corning-sign-deal-worth-up-to-6-billion-for-fiber-optic-cables-in-ai-data-centers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/29\/meta-corning-sign-deal-worth-up-to-6-billion-for-fiber-optic-cables-in-ai-data-centers\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta, Corning sign deal worth up to $6 billion for fiber-optic cables in AI data centers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook parent \u200dMeta Platforms will pay Gorilla Glass maker Corning up to $6 billion over the next several \u2060years in a deal to provide fiber-optic cables for its AI data centers, the companies said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Corning will supply advanced optical fiber, cable and connectivity products to \u200cMeta, while \u200cexpanding its manufacturing capacity in North Carolina, including at its cable factory in Hickory, where Meta \u200cwill be the anchor customer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook parent \u200dMeta Platforms will pay Gorilla Glass maker Corning up to $6 billion over the next several \u2060years in a deal to provide fiber-optic cables for its AI data centers, the companies said on Tuesday. Corning will supply advanced optical fiber, cable and connectivity products to \u200cMeta, while \u200cexpanding its manufacturing capacity in North Carolina, including at its cable factory in Hickory, where Meta \u200cwill be the anchor customer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-988395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=988395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}