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Market Brief / APR 24, 2026 / STRATEGY / 1 MIN READ

The End of Latency.

Analyzing the shift from centralized cloud to distributed edge processing in the post-hyperscaler era.

Latency is no longer a property of distance — it is a property of architecture. As compute moves outward to the edge, the centralized cloud begins to look less like a destination and more like a control plane.

This brief examines three forces driving distribution: regulatory pressure on data residency, the economics of regional bare-metal, and the inference profile of modern AI workloads.

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