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Edge data centres vary in size from several megawatt units down to micro data centres running tens of kilowatts . As well as being designed for pandemic considerations , Edge data centres must be environmentally friendly and optimised to use renewable energy as their principal power source .
The pandemic accelerating the Edge
The post-pandemic world economy will be a digitally-driven one . In education or commerce , whether it is person to person , person to machine , or machine to machine , economic activity will increasingly involve an interaction with some form of technology .
That technology will live ever closer to the user , whether that user is a thing or a person . The pandemic has brought about a sea change in human behaviour that is likely to entice more use of and further investment in Edge data centres .
As the world emerges from the pandemic , Edge data centres will be standard equipment for all industries and all economies . ◊
Because of national lockdowns and remote working , all Edge Computing investments that were made before COVID and lockdowns are expected to see a massive ROI by helping maintain productivity .
Bandwidth and network performance requirements have grown as Edge data centres ’ data processing is both closer to the user and has greater distance to travel to core enterprise data centres and cloud platforms . www . intelligentdatacentres . com
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