— Andrew Donoghue , director of global analyst relations , Vertiv where hyperscale , enterprise and edge facilities all work in tand -em, will see workloads located where it makes most sense from a cost , efficiency , latency and bandwidth perspective . He added : “ Latency dependent workloads will tend to reside at the edge whilst workloads that are less latency dependent and perhaps more data intensive will reside at the core in large hyperscale sites . So it ’ s not so much an edge build out as reorganisation of workloads to the most effective and efficient location .”

SUSTAINABILITY AT ( HYPER ) SCALE ?

Climate change is an increasingly immediate and existential threat . Rising global temperatures , pollution , a biodiversity large-scale corporations and poli ticians to present more than market-based , incremental solutions to the problem represent the single greatest challenge humanity has ever faced . The data cen tre industry is a huge consumer of energy and therefore a massive contributor to carbon emissions . The data centre industry has a bigger environmental impact than the world ’ s airlines .

Hyperscale facilities in particular , can consume enough electricity per hour

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