Backblaze highlights the Growing Impact of AI on Real-World Data Movement
Backblaze’s Q4 2025 Network Stats report highlights the growing impact of AI on data movement, revealing increased traffic between its platform, neocloud providers, and traditional hyperscalers. The Back-blaze report shows a shift from diffuse internet-style traffic to fewer endpoints carrying larger flows, with AI workloads moving massive datasets between storage and compute. The concentration of neocloud traffic in US-East aligns with the location of much of today’s AI compute capacity, indicating a higher baseline level of network activity.