Verizon CFO Sees AI as Next Revenue Stream

Skiadas unveils plan to repurpose central offices for hosting AI workloads.

Jericho Casper

Sep 4, 2025 — 2 min read

Photo of Verizon's Executive Vice President & CFO Tony Skiadas hosting the Verizon Finance team from LinkedIn.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 4, 2025 – Verizon CFO Tony Skiadas unveiled plans Thursday to repurpose the carrier’s wireline footprint to support artificial intelligence workloads.

“Emerging right now is what we call AI Connect,” Skiadas detailed. “Reimagining [Verizon’s] wireline assets to deliver AI workloads at scale.”

He pointed to the company’s existing infrastructure as the foundation: “[With] the dark fiber, lit fiber, power space and cooling that we have ready in our portfolio, we have the central offices to deliver AI at scale,” he said, speaking at Citi’s 2025 Global Technology, Media and Telecommunications Conference.

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