Ukraine’s fiber-optic drones face supply squeeze as AI data centers compete for cable

The same hair-thin glass that keeps Ukrainian drones immune to jamming is now in demand from the AI buildout, and prices have followed Ukraine found a way to beat electronic jamming on the battlefield: tie the drone to its pilot with a physical cable. Now it has to beat AI data centers for that cable. Fiber-optic drones, which trail miles of glass filament back to a human operator, have become so common in the war that Ukrainian trees and fields are draped in tangled strands thinner than fishing line, according to Ars Technica. The problem is that much of this fiber comes from China. Military buyers are now competing with the global AI infrastructure boom for the same limited supply.

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