Dr. Tomas
Rahkonen
Edge data centers are generally small data center facilities — designed for IT workloads up to a few hundred kilowatts — that process data closer to the population of local end users and devices. Earlier in 2021, we surveyed data center owners…
Dr. Tomas Rahkonen
Dr. Rahkonen is the Research Director Sustainability, Europe at Uptime Institute. Rahkonen has spent the last 25 years in positions within the telecommunications, mobile communications, and data center sectors globally, and most recently served as the CTO of Flexenclosure, where he managed the design and delivery of prefab data centers across four continents.
TRahkonen@uptimeinstitute.com
Latest Research
Eyeing an uptick in edge data center demand
Demand and speculation fuel edge buildout
Demand for private and shared edge data centers is starting to grow from low numbers. Certain edge workloads, the strategies of large cloud providers, and the speculative deployments of supporting 5G networks are fueling edge data center buildouts…
