KANSAS CITY, MO – Surge Holdings Inc., a developer of intelligent infrastructure, announced today a strategic partnership with Blue-Band, LLC., a leader in edge intelligence, to advance the creation of high-quality, real-time data assets at the intersection of physical infrastructure and AI-driven systems. Together, the companies are building a new kind of digital infrastructure that strengthens the systems people depend on every day, from transportation to energy to public safety.
Surge is building its infrastructure platform to support early and sustained data value creation at scale, enabling a resilient data environment aligned with AI-enabled markets. This approach reflects growing interest across financial and capital markets in proprietary, high-quality datasets as economically relevant enterprise resources, particularly when they are structurally tied to long-lived infrastructure deployments.
“Surge isn’t just responding to demand. We’re building the data systems that allow machines, infrastructure, and AI to work together in the real world,” said Miguel Jaramillo, Cofounder and CEO of Surge. “Our mission is to deploy real-world data networks at a meaningful scale, ensuring that the value we create is shared with the communities and partners who make it possible.”
Infrastructure Designed for Intelligence
The partnership with Blue-Band enhances Surge’s infrastructure footprint by embedding advanced intelligence capabilities directly into deployed systems. Blue-Band’s edge intelligence platform enables infrastructure nodes to support real-time, decision-ready insights closer to where data originates, strengthening their relevance across a range of AI-enabled applications.
“Our Integrator-AI™ platform is the crucial layer that moves infrastructure beyond simple connectivity,” said Kevin Yorke, CEO of Blue-Band. “We specialize in securely combining diverse data inputs at the edge to produce timely, decision-ready intelligence for advanced mobility and autonomous applications. This capability makes the resulting data uniquely valuable.”
By combining intelligent infrastructure with edge-native intelligence, Surge and Blue-Band are enabling the development of ongoing, high-quality datasets designed to support autonomous systems, mobility platforms, and other real-time decision environments.
Data and Emerging Market Perspectives
This joint capability aligns with early discussions around how data may factor into infrastructure-driven business models over time. As AI-enabled systems increasingly depend on persistent, real-time inputs, data generated through long-lived physical infrastructure is drawing interest as a possible contributor to operational and economic outcomes.
Historically treated as a secondary output of infrastructure operations, infrastructure-originated data is now being examined for its potential to support multiple downstream use cases when produced consistently and governed appropriately. In sectors such as transportation, mobility, logistics, and intelligent systems, continuously generated datasets are playing a growing role in analytics, automation, and system-level decision processes.
“By anchoring data creation to deployed infrastructure and edge-native intelligence, the Surge–Blue-Band model is designed to support consistency, longevity, and scale,” Jaramillo said. “As markets and organizations explore how data fits into enterprise and infrastructure strategies, our focus is on building systems that can support that evolution over time.
