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Edge Data Center Market Size, Share, Scope, Future Outlook, Analysis, Forecast, Growth, and Industry Report 2032

Edge Data Center Market was valued at USD 10.82 billion in 2023 and is expected to reach USD 57.39 billion by 2032, growing at a CAGR of 20.39% from 2024-2032.

The Edge Data Center Market is experiencing significant growth as businesses and consumers demand faster, low-latency digital services. With the rise of IoT, 5G networks, and cloud computing, edge data centers are becoming essential for real-time data processing. Companies are investing heavily in edge infrastructure to enhance efficiency, reduce network congestion, and improve user experience.

The Edge Data Center Market continues to expand as organizations shift towards decentralized computing models. By processing data closer to the source rather than relying solely on centralized cloud systems, edge data centers are enhancing speed, security, and reliability. This trend is fueling investments from telecom providers, cloud service companies, and enterprises seeking to optimize operations.

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Market Keyplayers:

Amazon Web Services (AWS) –( Dell Technologies, Cisco Systems)

Microsoft Azure – (Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Lenovo)

Google Cloud – (NVIDIA, Cisco Systems)

IBM – (NetApp, Lenovo)

Cisco Systems – (Arista Networks, Dell Technologies)

EdgeConneX – (Schneider Electric, Vertiv)

Equinix – (Nokia, Corning)

Digital Realty – (Fujitsu, Siemens)

Alibaba Cloud – (Huawei Technologies, Inspur)

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) – (Arista Networks, Dell Technologies)

Vertiv – (Schneider Electric, Eaton)

Fujitsu – (NEC Corporation, Hitachi)

Huawei Technologies – (ZTE Corporation, Inspur)

NTT Communications – (Cisco Systems, Juniper Networks)

Oracle – (Dell Technologies, NetApp)

Vantage Data Centers – (Vertiv, Schneider Electric)

CyrusOne – ((Cisco Systems, Dell Technologies)

Glesys – (DigitalOcean, Linode)

Market Trends Driving Growth

1. Rising Adoption of 5G and IoT

The expansion of 5G networks and IoT devices is generating massive amounts of data, requiring faster processing closer to end users. Edge data centers help meet this demand by reducing latency and improving network efficiency.

2. Increased Demand for Low-Latency Applications

Industries such as gaming, autonomous vehicles, and smart cities rely on real-time data processing. Edge computing enables ultra-fast responses, making it critical for applications requiring near-instant decision-making.

3. Growth of AI and Machine Learning at the Edge

Businesses are integrating AI and ML into edge infrastructure to process data locally, reducing the need for cloud dependency. This trend enhances data security and minimizes bandwidth costs.

4. Surge in Investment from Telecom and Cloud Providers

Major cloud service providers and telecom operators are expanding their edge data center networks to support content delivery, remote work, and enterprise applications. This is leading to the rapid deployment of modular and micro data centers in key locations.

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Market Segmentation:

By Component

Solution

Hardware

Software

Service

Professional

Managed

By Facility Size

Small And Medium Facility

Large Facility

By End- Use

IT And Telecom

BFSI

Healthcare And Lifesciences

Manufacturing & Automotive

Government

Gaming And Entertainment

Retail And E-Commerce

Market Analysis

Increased Data Traffic: With billions of connected devices, data traffic is surging, requiring efficient processing closer to end-users.

Decentralized Cloud Architecture: Businesses are shifting from traditional cloud models to edge-based solutions for better speed and reliability.

Rising Demand for Smart Infrastructure: Governments and enterprises are investing in smart cities, industrial automation, and digital healthcare, all of which depend on edge computing.

Security and Compliance Requirements: Edge computing reduces risks associated with centralized cloud storage, ensuring enhanced data privacy and regulatory compliance.

Despite its rapid growth, challenges such as infrastructure costs, integration complexities, and cybersecurity risks remain. However, continued advancements in AI-driven management, energy-efficient cooling, and edge security solutions are helping address these concerns.

Future Prospects: What Lies Ahead?

1. Expansion of Hyper-Local Edge Deployments

Businesses will continue deploying micro edge data centers in remote locations, ensuring seamless connectivity and real-time processing for critical applications.

2. Integration of AI for Automated Edge Operations

AI-driven automation will optimize data center operations, enhancing efficiency, reducing downtime, and improving predictive maintenance.

3. Sustainable and Energy-Efficient Edge Infrastructure

As energy consumption becomes a growing concern, edge data centers will incorporate advanced cooling systems, renewable energy sources, and low-power hardware to minimize environmental impact.

4. Enhanced Security and Edge-to-Cloud Collaboration

Cybersecurity measures will evolve to protect decentralized computing environments. Businesses will integrate edge solutions with centralized cloud systems for a hybrid approach, balancing performance and security.

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The Edge Data Center Market is revolutionizing data processing by enabling faster, localized computing solutions. With the expansion of 5G, IoT, and AI-driven applications, demand for edge infrastructure is set to soar. Businesses that invest in edge technology will gain a competitive advantage, ensuring seamless digital experiences and improved operational efficiency. As the industry evolves, innovation in automation, sustainability, and security will define the future of edge data centers.

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Sify’s Edge Data Centers: Powering the Future of Real-Time Computing

As digital experiences grow increasingly complex, businesses are seeking solutions that can process vast amounts of data in real-time while minimizing latency. Sify’s Edge Data Centers are designed to meet these demands by bringing computing power closer to the source of data generation. This localized approach enables businesses to process, analyze, and deliver data with unprecedented speed, enhancing performance and improving user experiences.

Edge data centers are decentralized facilities designed to be closer to the end-users and devices generating data. Essential to edge computing, an edge data center helps reduce latency by processing data close to the source, apart from offering numerous other benefits. Unlike conventional centralized data centers, they manage time-sensitive data locally. This enhances the effectiveness and performance of applications for use cases, such as smart cities, industrial automation, and autonomous cars, which demand real-time processing.

Learn More:

To explore how Sify’s Edge Data Center can transform your cybersecurity strategy and protect your business from evolving threats, read our detailed blog post:https://www.sifytechnologies.com/blog/what-is-an-edge-data-center/

Discover how Sify’s Edge Data Center can provide you with the expertise, technology, and support needed to ensure your organization’s security. Embrace a proactive approach to cybersecurity with Sify and safeguard your digital assets effectively.

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Edge Data Center Market Report 2024-2032

The global edge data center market size reached US$ 11.0 Billion in 2023. Looking forward, IMARC Group expects the market to reach US$ 44.8 Billion by 2032, exhibiting a growth rate (CAGR) of 16.92% during 2024-2032.

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Edge Data Center Market- Optimizing IT Infrastructure for Business

The edge data centers facilitate quick delivery of data services with minimal latency. Edge caching is adopted by various industries dominated by IT and Telecommunication. Edge data centers provide their customers with high security and greater data control. Time-sensitive data is processed faster with edge data centers. Integration of advanced technologies such as AI and 5G is expected to create a lucrative growth opportunity for companies.

Apart from quick data delivery, low latency is another attractive feature of edge catching. In telecommunication companies edge catching is used to get better connectivity and proximity. IoT devices are bound to create huge data that need processing. Having a centralized server won’t be a feasible option here. Edge data centers could increase processing speed. Medical pieces of equipment may rely on edge data centers for robotic surgeries and extremely low latency.

Autonomous vehicles need to share data among vehicles in the same or other networks. A network of edge data centers could collect data and assist in emergency response. With the onset of Industry 4.0, companies will focus on building smart factories. Having an edge data center will help companies in planning their machine’s maintenance and quality management. Owing to a smaller footprint, lower latency, and faster processing edge data centers are anticipated to remain a key part of the IT infrastructure of companies.

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The Asia-Pacific edge data center market, valued at $5.36 billion in 2023, is expected to reach $31.57 billion by 2033, exhibiting a robust CAGR of 19.40% during the forecast period 2023-2033.

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Consider the ways oil and gas are already entwined with big tech. The foundation of the partnership between Big Tech and Big Oil is the cloud, explains Zero Cool, a software expert who went to Kazakhstan to do work for Chevron and chronicled this in Logic magazine. “For Amazon, Google, and Microsoft, as well as a few smaller cloud competitors like Oracle and IBM, winning the IT spend of the Fortune 500 is where most of the money in the public cloud market will be made”—and out of the biggest ten companies in the world by revenue, six are in the business of oil production. What are oil companies going to do with the cloud? Apparently, Chevron—which signed a seven-year cloud contract with Microsoft—generates a terabyte of data per day per sensor and has thousands of wells with these sensors. They can’t even use all that data because of the scale of computation required. “Big Tech doesn’t just supply the infrastructures that enable oil companies to crunch their data,” explains Zero Cool; they also provide analytic tools, and machine learning can help discover patterns to run their operations more efficiently. This is another reason why Big Oils need Big Tech; they have the edge when it comes to artificial intelligence/machine learning. “Why go through the effort of using clean energy to power your data centers when those same data centers are being used by companies like Chevron to produce more oil?” Zero Cool asks, also noting that one of the main reasons oil companies are interested in technology is to surveil workers.

Holly Jean Buck, Ending Fossil Fuels: Why Net Zero is Not Enough

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Dean Obeidallah at The Dean's Report:

“The one big thing nobody is talking about: Did Elon want to shut the government down because of his business deals with China?�� That was the first line of Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass) multi-part statement Saturday posted on Elon Musk’s platform, X--ironically enough. A similar point was also made Friday by Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT)—the ranking minority member of the House Appropriations Committee-in a detailed letter to leaders of the House and the Senate. What was the issue the two were flagging? As Rep. McGovern wrote: “The original funding bill (that he [Musk] killed) included what’s called an “outbound investment” provision—which would limit & screen U.S. money flowing to China. That would have made it easier to keep cutting-edge AI and quantum computing tech—as well as jobs—in America. But Elon had a problem.” DeLauro gave even more context to this provision vetting investments in China: “This outbound investment provision was agreed to after months of bipartisan, bicameral negotiations and years of advocacy from Members of Congress. It would have kept innovation and manufacturing in semiconductors, artificial intelligence (AI), quantum computing, and other cutting-edge technologies in the United States and prevented wealthy investors from continuing to offshore production and U.S. intellectual property into China – benefiting only their bottom lines and the Chinese Communist Party.” But Musk—per these two members of Congress—led the charge to block this proposed legislation because as McGovern accurately noted, Musk’s “second-largest market is China. He’s building huge factories there. His bottom line depends on staying in China’s good graces.” The result was that when the new budget deal was agreed upon Friday, guess what was missing? Yep, the provision that would’ve been bad for Musk’s business deals with the Chinese Communist Party—which is in essence Musk’s business partner as the NY Times detailed earlier this year in an article titled, “How Elon Musk Became ‘Kind of Pro-China.’” (Musk’s exact words.)

Rep. DeLauro explained in more detail the financial incentive behind Musk’s action to block this provision: “Musk’s car company, Tesla has poured billions of dollars into investments in China, particularly its “gigafactory” in Shanghai. The Shanghai plant is Tesla’s largest car manufacturing facility – the Chinese gigafactory produced about 50 percent of Tesla’s global automobile output over the last year.” DeLauro continued, “And in May of this year, Tesla broke ground on a new $200 million factory to manufacture large batteries critical to its electric vehicle supply chain…Notably, proponents of regulating U.S. investment in China have advocated for the inclusion of large battery manufacturing in the list of technologies subject to outbound investment screening.” Yep, these new law could’ve impacted Musk’s new business venture per DeLauro.

Rep. McGovern also raised concerns about Musk’s future business plans involving China, explaining Musk “wants to build an AI data center there too—which could endanger U.S. security.” Importantly, DeLauro detailed for all to see Musk’s documented personal relations with the Chinese Communist Party, noting, “Musk has ingratiated himself with Chinese Communist Party leadership.” For example, she cited Musk’s close ties with “Chinese premier Li Qiang, who helped rush the construction of Tesla’s Shanghai gigafactory.” DeLauro concluded her letter by writing, “It is extremely alarming that House Republican leadership, at the urging of an unelected billionaire, scrapped…this critical provision to protect American jobs and critical capabilities.” Adding, “This is particularly concerning given Elon Musk’s extensive investments in China in key sectors and his personal ties with Chinese Communist Party leadership, and calls into question the real reason for Musk’s opposition to the original funding deal.”

[...] In fact, even a well-known Republican raised alarm bells about Musk’s loyalty to Beijing. Vivek Ramaswamy--who Trump tapped with Musk to co-head the newly created Department of Government Efficiency--was publicly warning in 2023 that Musk was a puppet for the Chinese Communist Party. As CNN recently reported, Ramaswamy was concerned that “Tesla is increasingly beholden to China,” adding damningly, “I have no reason to think Elon won’t jump like a circus monkey when [China’s leader] Xi Jinping calls in the hour of need.” The GOP silence on Musk’s extensive ties to the Chinese Communist Party is beyond hypocritical given that for years Republicans have slammed China as a threat. For example, in January 2023, the House GOP created “The Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party” designed to address the “threat posed by the Chinese Communist Party and develop a plan of action to defend the American people, our economy, and our values.” Earlier this year, the House GOP led the charge to ban Tik Tok from having access to the United States--which was signed into law and goes into effect Jan. 19, 2025 unless the Chinese company that owns the social media platform sells it to a non-Chinese company. But when it comes to Musk, the GOP doesn’t care that he has documented ties to top Chinese Communist Party officials.

CCP puppet and de facto “President” Elon Musk helped block the original CR to protect his business deals with the Chinese government, because it had an “outbound investment” provision that would screen any US money sent to China.

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Sify’s Edge Data Center: Powering Digital Growth at the Edge

As digital transformation accelerates and the demand for low-latency, high-speed data processing increases, businesses are moving closer to their customers and data sources through Edge Data Centers. Sify’s Edge Data Center solutions are designed to meet the growing need for real-time data processing, seamless connectivity, and scalability, enabling businesses to thrive in the digital economy.

Edge data centers are decentralized facilities designed to be closer to the end-users and devices generating data. Essential to edge computing, an edge data center helps reduce latency by processing data close to the source, apart from offering numerous other benefits. Unlike conventional centralized data centers, they manage time-sensitive data locally. This enhances the effectiveness and performance of applications for use cases, such as smart cities, industrial automation, and autonomous cars, which demand real-time processing.

Learn More

To explore how Sify’s Edge Data Center can transform your cybersecurity strategy and protect your business from evolving threats, read our detailed blog post: https://www.sifytechnologies.com/blog/what-is-an-edge-data-center/

Discover how Sify’s Edge Data Center can provide you with the expertise, technology, and support needed to ensure your organization’s security. Embrace a proactive approach to cybersecurity with Sify and safeguard your digital assets effectively.

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A link-clump demands a linkdump

Cometh the weekend, cometh the linkdump. My daily-ish newsletter includes a section called "Hey look at this," with three short links per day, but sometimes those links get backed up and I need to clean house. Here's the eight previous installments:

https://pluralistic.net/tag/linkdump/

The country code top level domain (ccTLD) for the Caribbean island nation of Anguilla is .ai, and that's turned into millions of dollars worth of royalties as "entrepreneurs" scramble to sprinkle some buzzword-compliant AI stuff on their businesses in the most superficial way possible:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/08/ai-fever-turns-anguillas-ai-domain-into-a-digital-gold-mine/

All told, .ai domain royalties will account for about ten percent of the country's GDP.

It's actually kind of nice to see Anguilla finding some internet money at long last. Back in the 1990s, when I was a freelance web developer, I got hired to work on the investor website for a publicly traded internet casino based in Anguilla that was a scammy disaster in every conceivable way. The company had been conceived of by people who inherited a modestly successful chain of print-shops and decided to diversify by buying a dormant penny mining stock and relaunching it as an online casino.

But of course, online casinos were illegal nearly everywhere. Not in Anguilla – or at least, that's what the founders told us – which is why they located their servers there, despite the lack of broadband or, indeed, reliable electricity at their data-center. At a certain point, the whole thing started to whiff of a stock swindle, a pump-and-dump where they'd sell off shares in that ex-mining stock to people who knew even less about the internet than they did and skedaddle. I got out, and lost track of them, and a search for their names and business today turns up nothing so I assume that it flamed out before it could ruin any retail investors' lives.

Anguilla is a British Overseas Territory, one of those former British colonies that was drained and then given "independence" by paternalistic imperial administrators half a world away. The country's main industries are tourism and "finance" – which is to say, it's a pearl in the globe-spanning necklace of tax- and corporate-crime-havens the UK established around the world so its most vicious criminals – the hereditary aristocracy – can continue to use Britain's roads and exploit its educated workforce without paying any taxes.

This is the "finance curse," and there are tiny, struggling nations all around the world that live under it. Nick Shaxson dubbed them "Treasure Islands" in his outstanding book of the same name:

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780230341722/treasureislands

I can't imagine that the AI bubble will last forever – anything that can't go on forever eventually stops – and when it does, those .ai domain royalties will dry up. But until then, I salute Anguilla, which has at last found the internet riches that I played a small part in bringing to it in the previous century.

The AI bubble is indeed overdue for a popping, but while the market remains gripped by irrational exuberance, there's lots of weird stuff happening around the edges. Take Inject My PDF, which embeds repeating blocks of invisible text into your resume:

https://kai-greshake.de/posts/inject-my-pdf/

The text is tuned to make resume-sorting Large Language Models identify you as the ideal candidate for the job. It'll even trick the summarizer function into spitting out text that does not appear in any human-readable form on your CV.

Embedding weird stuff into resumes is a hacker tradition. I first encountered it at the Chaos Communications Congress in 2012, when Ang Cui used it as an example in his stellar "Print Me If You Dare" talk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njVv7J2azY8

Cui figured out that one way to update the software of a printer was to embed an invisible Postscript instruction in a document that basically said, "everything after this is a firmware update." Then he came up with 100 lines of perl that he hid in documents with names like cv.pdf that would flash the printer when they ran, causing it to probe your LAN for vulnerable PCs and take them over, opening a reverse-shell to his command-and-control server in the cloud. Compromised printers would then refuse to apply future updates from their owners, but would pretend to install them and even update their version numbers to give verisimilitude to the ruse. The only way to exorcise these haunted printers was to send 'em to the landfill. Good times!

Printers are still a dumpster fire, and it's not solely about the intrinsic difficulty of computer security. After all, printer manufacturers have devoted enormous resources to hardening their products against their owners, making it progressively harder to use third-party ink. They're super perverse about it, too – they send "security updates" to your printer that update the printer's security against you – run these updates and your printer downgrades itself by refusing to use the ink you chose for it:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/11/ink-stained-wretches-battle-soul-digital-freedom-taking-place-inside-your-printer

It's a reminder that what a monopolist thinks of as "security" isn't what you think of as security. Oftentimes, their security is antithetical to your security. That was the case with Web Environment Integrity, a plan by Google to make your phone rat you out to advertisers' servers, revealing any adblocking modifications you might have installed so that ad-serving companies could refuse to talk to you:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/02/self-incrimination/#wei-bai-bai

WEI is now dead, thanks to a lot of hueing and crying by people like us:

https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/02/google_abandons_web_environment_integrity/

But the dream of securing Google against its own users lives on. Youtube has embarked on an aggressive campaign of refusing to show videos to people running ad-blockers, triggering an arms-race of ad-blocker-blockers and ad-blocker-blocker-blockers:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/where-will-the-ad-versus-ad-blocker-arms-race-end/

The folks behind Ublock Origin are racing to keep up with Google's engineers' countermeasures, and there's a single-serving website called "Is uBlock Origin updated to the last Anti-Adblocker YouTube script?" that will give you a realtime, one-word status update:

https://drhyperion451.github.io/does-uBO-bypass-yt/

One in four web users has an ad-blocker, a stat that Doc Searls pithily summarizes as "the biggest boycott in world history":

https://doc.searls.com/2015/09/28/beyond-ad-blocking-the-biggest-boycott-in-human-history/

Zero app users have ad-blockers. That's not because ad-blocking an app is harder than ad-blocking the web – it's because reverse-engineering an app triggers liability under IP laws like Section 1201 of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, which can put you away for 5 years for a first offense. That's what I mean when I say that "IP is anything that lets a company control its customers, critics or competitors:

https://locusmag.com/2020/09/cory-doctorow-ip/

I predicted that apps would open up all kinds of opportunities for abusive, monopolistic conduct back in 2010, and I'm experiencing a mix of sadness and smugness (I assume there's a German word for this emotion) at being so thoroughly vindicated by history:

https://memex.craphound.com/2010/04/01/why-i-wont-buy-an-ipad-and-think-you-shouldnt-either/

The more control a company can exert over its customers, the worse it will be tempted to treat them. These systems of control shift the balance of power within companies, making it harder for internal factions that defend product quality and customer interests to win against the enshittifiers:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/28/microincentives-and-enshittification/

The result has been a Great Enshittening, with platforms of all description shifting value from their customers and users to their shareholders, making everything palpably worse. The only bright side is that this has created the political will to do something about it, sparking a wave of bold, muscular antitrust action all over the world.

The Google antitrust case is certainly the most important corporate lawsuit of the century (so far), but Judge Amit Mehta's deference to Google's demands for secrecy has kept the case out of the headlines. I mean, Sam Bankman-Fried is a psychopathic thief, but even so, his trial does not deserve its vastly greater prominence, though, if you haven't heard yet, he's been convicted and will face decades in prison after he exhausts his appeals:

https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/sam-bankman-fried-guilty-on-all-charges

The secrecy around Google's trial has relaxed somewhat, and the trickle of revelations emerging from the cracks in the courthouse are fascinating. For the first time, we're able to get a concrete sense of which queries are the most lucrative for Google:

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/1/23941766/google-antitrust-trial-search-queries-ad-money

The list comes from 2018, but it's still wild. As David Pierce writes in The Verge, the top twenty includes three iPhone-related terms, five insurance queries, and the rest are overshadowed by searches for customer service info for monopolistic services like Xfinity, Uber and Hulu.

All-in-all, we're living through a hell of a moment for piercing the corporate veil. Maybe it's the problem of maintaining secrecy within large companies, or maybe the the rampant mistreatment of even senior executives has led to more leaks and whistleblowing. Either way, we all owe a debt of gratitude to the anonymous leaker who revealed the unbelievable pettiness of former HBO president of programming Casey Bloys, who ordered his underlings to create an army of sock-puppet Twitter accounts to harass TV and movie critics who panned HBO's shows:

https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-features/hbo-casey-bloys-secret-twitter-trolls-tv-critics-leaked-texts-lawsuit-the-idol-1234867722/

These trolling attempts were pathetic, even by the standards of thick-fingered corporate execs. Like, accusing critics who panned the shitty-ass Perry Mason reboot of disrespecting veterans because the fictional Mason's back-story had him storming the beach on D-Day.

The pushback against corporate bullying is everywhere, and of course, the vanguard is the labor movement. Did you hear that the UAW won their strike against the auto-makers, scoring raises for all workers based on the increases in the companies' CEO pay? The UAW isn't done, either! Their incredible new leader, Shawn Fain, has called for a general strike in 2028:

https://www.404media.co/uaw-calls-on-workers-to-line-up-massive-general-strike-for-2028-to-defeat-billionaire-class/

The massive victory for unionized auto-workers has thrown a spotlight on the terrible working conditions and pay for workers at Tesla, a criminal company that has no compunctions about violating labor law to prevent its workers from exercising their legal rights. Over in Sweden, union workers are teaching Tesla a lesson. After the company tried its illegal union-busting playbook on Tesla service centers, the unionized dock-workers issued an ultimatum: respect your workers or face a blockade at Sweden's ports that would block any Tesla from being unloaded into the EU's fifth largest Tesla market:

https://www.wired.com/story/tesla-sweden-strike/

Of course, the real solution to Teslas – and every other kind of car – is to redesign our cities for public transit, walking and cycling, making cars the exception for deliveries, accessibility and other necessities. Transitioning to EVs will make a big dent in the climate emergency, but it won't make our streets any safer – and they keep getting deadlier.

Last summer, my dear old pal Ted Kulczycky got in touch with me to tell me that Talking Heads were going to be all present in public for the first time since the band's breakup, as part of the debut of the newly remastered print of Stop Making Sense, the greatest concert movie of all time. Even better, the show would be in Toronto, my hometown, where Ted and I went to high-school together, at TIFF.

Ted is the only person I know who is more obsessed with Talking Heads than I am, and he started working on tickets for the show while I starting pricing plane tickets. And then, the unthinkable happened: Ted's wife, Serah, got in touch to say that Ted had been run over by a car while getting off of a streetcar, that he was severely injured, and would require multiple surgeries.

But this was Ted, so of course he was still planning to see the show. And he did, getting a day-pass from the hospital and showing up looking like someone from a Kids In The Hall sketch who'd been made up to look like someone who'd been run over by a car:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/doctorow/53182440282/

In his Globe and Mail article about Ted's experience, Brad Wheeler describes how the whole hospital rallied around Ted to make it possible for him to get to the movie:

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/music/article-how-a-talking-heads-superfan-found-healing-with-the-concert-film-stop/

He also mentions that Ted is working on a book and podcast about Stop Making Sense. I visited Ted in the hospital the day after the gig and we talked about the book and it sounds amazing. Also? The movie was incredible. See it in Imax.

That heartwarming tale of healing through big suits is a pretty good place to wrap up this linkdump, but I want to call your attention to just one more thing before I go: Robin Sloan's Snarkmarket piece about blogging and "stock and flow":

https://snarkmarket.com/2010/4890/

Sloan makes the excellent case that for writers, having a "flow" of short, quick posts builds the audience for a "stock" of longer, more synthetic pieces like books. This has certainly been my experience, but I think it's only part of the story – there are good, non-mercenary reasons for writers to do a lot of "flow." As I wrote in my 2021 essay, "The Memex Method," turning your commonplace book into a database – AKA "blogging" – makes you write better notes to yourself because you know others will see them:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/05/09/the-memex-method/

This, in turn, creates a supersaturated, subconscious solution of fragments that are just waiting to nucleate and crystallize into full-blown novels and nonfiction books and other "stock." That's how I came out of lockdown with nine new books. The next one is The Lost Cause, a hopepunk science fiction novel about the climate whose early fans include Naomi Klein, Rebecca Solnit, Bill McKibben and Kim Stanley Robinson. It's out on November 14:

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865939/the-lost-cause

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/05/variegated/#nein

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Silicon Valley's GPU Wars: NVIDIA and Its Challengers

The battle for computing supremacy is heating up! Our latest analysis dives deep into how NVIDIA maintains its dominant position in the GPU market while facing growing competition from tech giants and innovative newcomers.

With roughly 80% of the discrete GPU market and 70% of data center GPUs, NVIDIA's reign seems secure. But competitors aren't standing still - AMD's competitive pricing and performance gains, Intel's ambitious GPU plans, and specialized players like Qualcomm and Broadcom are all vying for their piece of the rapidly expanding AI and high-performance computing pie.

From gaming rigs to AI data centers, the stakes have never been higher. Which company has the edge in innovation? How are they positioning themselves for the AI revolution? And what does this mean for consumers and investors?

Read the full analysis on our blog!

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A City Lost in the Neon Abyss

The central hub of the cybercity looms like a massive shadow against the skyline, its black surfaces absorbing all light except for the intense purple neon grids that pulse like a digital heartbeat. Towering skyscrapers with razor-sharp edges are adorned with holographic projections of cyber-deities, their digital eyes scanning the masses below. The streets are alive with synthetic fog and neon reflections, where cyborg traders barter in underground markets beneath the ever-watchful AI security drones. At the city’s core, a singular obsidian tower—the seat of the metropolis’s corporate rulers—pulses with the glow of infinite data streams, a beacon of power in a world consumed by the neon abyss.

A sprawling black cityscape stretches into infinity, its skyline broken only by the luminous pulse of violet neon coursing through the veins of its megastructures. In the city center, a towering monument of glass and steel—known as the Neon Monolith—stands as the ultimate seat of AI control. The streets below are illuminated by electric purple signs, advertising bio-mechanical enhancements and virtual reality escapes. Beneath the hovering highways, shadowy figures exchange stolen data chips in the neon haze, while AI-controlled enforcers patrol the upper levels, scanning the streets for signs of rebellion. The city hums with a synthetic life force, an ecosystem of code and electricity, where reality and the digital world blur into one.

A neon-lit superstructure dominates the cybercity’s central district, its blackened towers stretching skyward with jagged, glowing edges. At the city’s core, a colossal data hub glows with an eerie purple radiance, sending encrypted transmissions across the skyline. Streets of obsidian steel pulse with violet LED pathways, guiding autonomous vehicles and cybernetic citizens through the digital maze. Above, hover-trams streak across glowing rails, their silhouettes flickering against the neon horizon. AI-driven street monitors flash cryptic messages, warning of resistance groups forming in the shadows, just beyond the reach of the omnipresent surveillance.