The rapid growth of edge computing is being driven by new classes of digital growth that require local processing, i.e., where the data set is too large and/or the application is too latency sensitive to be transmitted back to a centralized cloud server.
Digital Growth Areas
Growth in edge computing can be attributed to expanding and emerging applications, including: Online shopping, 5G, Internet of things (IoT), Blockchain, Artificial intelligence (AI), Remote learning, Streaming (i.e., videos, video conferencing), Telemedicine.
This technical bulletin has been written to highlight the environmental and reliability challenges of small edge data centers
