Vertical Bridge has teamed with DataBank on a project to deploy micros data centers at the base of telecommunications towers, like this one. (Photo: Vertical Bridge)
Switch Refines MOD Data Center Design for Edge, Smart Cities: Switch has updated its MOD Data Center Design to package its innovations in a smaller form factor, allowing it to expand beyond hyperscale projects to enterprise, edge and smart cities infrastructure.
DartPoints Brings its Micro Data Centers to the Edge: DartPoints, which launched in 2014 with an ambitious vision to build a national network of micro data centers, is planning facilities in five new markets.
DataStation: Bringing Servers to the Heart of the Grid: The SRP DataStation places modular data centers from BASELAYER at the bulk transmission lines that represent the fast lane of the power grid, allowing them to operate without a UPS or generator.
The Fog Layer and Other Demand Wildcards
In coming weeks we’ll be writing more about the various factors that will impact how the edge computing market develops. In the meantime, here are several recent stories that highlight some wrinkles that illustrate the opportunities for new deployment models, but also raise interesting questions about what type of hardware will handle edge requirements.
New Chips, Software Shift Workloads from Cloud to Mobile Devices : Advances in hardware and software are bringing the computing power of the cloud into devices in our pockets, allowing smartphones and IoT devices to run AI neural networks and other data-intensive processing.
Supercomputing Moves to the Edge with AI-Guided Drones : Avitas Systems’ drone inspection service is bringing AI data-crunching to remote locations with the NVIDIA DGX Station “supercomputer in a box.”
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