After years of anticipation, 2019 saw some of the first rollouts of 5G, with deployments growing significantly this year and continuing to increase in 2021. At the same time, according to the Linux Foundation’s State of the Edge 2020 report, by 2028, edge infrastructure will have a power footprint of 102,000 MW, and over $700 billion in cumulative CAPEX would have been spent within the next decade on edge IT infrastructure and data center facilities.
