It is reported that Prysmian has signed an agreement with Molex, with a maximum value of €5.5 billion, covering the supply of data center optical cables. The core focus of this agreement is optical communication cables tailored for data center environments, serving as foundational infrastructure supporting server clusters, network interconnectivity, and high-bandwidth data transmission.

As AI training, inference, and cloud services demand increasingly higher capabilities in intra-data center and inter-facility connectivity, the importance of underlying network components such as optical cables continues to rise within compute infrastructure. With the transaction cap reaching €5.5 billion, this underscores the substantial scale of related supply chain orders, positioning Prysmian and Molex’s collaboration around the evolving connectivity needs of data centers.