One of the major hyperscalers is reportedly planning to roll out a fleet of Edge data centers across the US.
The Foundations newsletter this week said that the investment wing of a data center developer targeting hyperscalers plans to deploy ~20 Edge modular data centers across the US with an unnamed hyperscaler for “AI inferencing.”
“We're building 20 pure Edge network data centers for a single tenant all across the country. The purpose of those data centers is for AI inferencing,” the company spokesperson told Foundations. “They want to move it out of their large self-builds for redundancy and just for decreased latency. They're building anywhere from 5MW-10MW in standalone facilities all across the country.”
The company will reportedly be investing $50-100 million in each facility. The modular facilities will reportedly be built in 1-2MW increments. The move is motivated by a lack of available capacity within facilities operated by existing colocation providers in target cities.
Further details on locations were not shared. DCD has reached out to the company for more details.
The hyperscaler in question is not named, but Foundations suggests it could be the social media firm Meta.
As well as more than 20 of its own self-built data center campuses, the company reportedly has Edge infrastructure deployed in around 20 facilities in 15 US metros, and its Meta Network Appliance CDN equipment in hundreds of locations worldwide – including around 150 sites across 75 US cities.