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Edge Industry Statistics

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Edge Industry Statistics
Samuel NorbergWritten by Samuel Norberg·Fact-checked by Maya Johansson
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01Editorial Scope

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02Source Research

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01 Industry overview

The edge industry at a glance

The global edge data center market was valued at $34.8 billion in 2025 and is expanding as enterprises deploy low-latency infrastructure for IoT, AI, 5G and real-time analytics.

$34.8B[60]
Market size, 2025
14.9%[60]
Forecast CAGR, 2026–2033
35.5%[60]
North America share, 2025
62%[5]
Organizations adopting edge, 2026
Market size
The global edge data center market was valued at $34.8 billion in 2025 and is estimated at $40.0 billion in 2026. The market includes edge infrastructure serving applications such as IoT, AI, 5G, streaming and real-time analytics.[60]
Forecast & CAGR
The market is projected to reach $105.8 billion by 2033, representing a 14.9% compound annual growth rate from 2026 to 2033. Asia Pacific is identified as the fastest-growing regional market during the forecast period.[60]
Market share & regions
North America held the largest regional share at 35.5% of revenue in 2025. Other estimates place the United States above 44% of global edge data center capacity, with EMEA at 32% and APAC at 24% in 2024.[60][61]
Segmentation
Solutions accounted for 87.0% of the market in 2025, while large facilities represented the leading facility-size segment. IT and telecommunications was the largest end-use segment, reflecting demand from connectivity, cloud and distributed computing workloads.[60]
Key players & concentration
The market combines large infrastructure, cloud, telecommunications and colocation providers with specialist edge operators. Public market research identifies IT and telecommunications as the leading end-use segment, but does not provide a reliable global concentration ratio for the major companies.[60]
Pricing
An on-premise edge server or gateway averaged about $8,400 in 2025, while fitting out a regional edge data center was estimated at $9.60 million per megawatt. These are estimates and exclude some costs such as land, utility connections, software and services.[62]
Trends, drivers & challenges
IoT, AI, 5G, streaming and real-time analytics are increasing demand for local processing. In Omdia’s 2026 survey, 62% of organizations had adopted edge architectures for IoT, 42% ranked edge processing as their top technology investment, and 53% had reached moderate-to-extensive scale; scaling deployments remains constrained by organizational and implementation challenges.[60][5]
Consumer behavior & competition
Demand is shifting from experimentation toward production deployment: Omdia found that 53% of surveyed organizations had achieved moderate-to-extensive edge scale across business units or enterprise-wide in 2026. Competition spans hyperscalers, telecom operators, colocation providers and edge-specialist platforms, with latency, data locality, interoperability and deployment scale as key differentiators.[5][63]
M&A
Data center M&A accelerated in 2025, including the announced $40 billion acquisition of Aligned Data Centers and Templus’s purchase of nine European data centers from AtlasEdge. These transactions indicate continued consolidation and institutional investment in regional and distributed infrastructure, although not all deals are exclusively edge-focused.[64]
Regulation
The EU Data Act entered into application on September 12, 2025. It gives users greater control over data generated by connected devices and requires cloud and edge computing providers to meet minimum interoperability and switching requirements.[63]
Latest news
In October 2026, Omdia reported that 62% of organizations surveyed were adopting edge computing for IoT deployments, while 42% ranked edge processing as their top technology investment. The survey covered 570 IoT decision-makers across ten countries.[5]

02 Ranking

Top 10 Companies in the Edge Industry

The leading companies in the edge industry, ranked on market impact, performance, momentum, innovation and brand popularity.

Updated November 11, 2026 · Next review December 11, 2026

Verdict

NVIDIA leads Gitnux's 2026 edge ranking with an Overall score of 9.6, with revenue growth of 65.47% and operating margin of 60.38%. Microsoft is the highest-ranked cloud and hybrid infrastructure provider at 9.5, driven by Azure and other cloud services growth of 34% in fiscal 2025.

Ranked by Overall score · How we score ↓

Editor's top 3 picks

Where to start, by need.

  1. #1 Overall · Leader in edge AI acceleration

    NVIDIA

    US

    Ranked #1 · 9.6 · Edge AI acceleration

    Why we picked it: Edge AI inference platforms show sharp profitability signals, with R&D at 8.57% of revenue.

    See in ranking ↓Visit nvidia.com ↗

  2. Leader in edge cloud infrastructure

    Microsoft

    US

    Ranked #2 · 9.5 · Edge cloud infrastructure

    Why we picked it: Cloud-scale deployment capacity supports distributed edge deployments, with operating margin 45.62%.

    See in ranking ↓Visit microsoft.com ↗

  3. Leader in distributed edge compute platform

    Alphabet

    US

    Ranked #3 · 9.3 · Distributed edge compute platform

    Why we picked it: Distributed Cloud extends Kubernetes to edge locations, matching high R&D intensity at 15.16%.

    See in ranking ↓Visit abc.xyz ↗

Pick 1 is the #1 company overall. Picks 2 and 3 are the highest-ranked companies in the top 5 that add a new segment.

Full ranking

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Top 10 companies in the edge industry, 2026 – Gitnux ranking
#CompanyOverall ↓Company snapshot
1

NVIDIA

Edge AI acceleration · US

9.6
2

Microsoft

Edge cloud infrastructure · US

9.5
3

Alphabet

Distributed edge compute platform · US

9.3
4

Cisco Systems

Distributed edge networking · US

9.2
5

Dell Technologies

Edge servers and storage · US

8.8
6

Cloudflare

Edge network, security and serverless compute · US

8.8
7

Huawei

5G edge, telecom infrastructure and edge AI · CN

8.5
8

Schneider Electric

Edge data-center power and infrastructure · FR

8.5
9

Digital Realty

Data centers, colocation and distributed edge capacity · US

8.3
10

Akamai Technologies

Distributed cloud, CDN and edge computing · US

8.3

How we score

  • Impact (30%): scale and weight in the market (revenue, market share, employees, market position).
  • Performance (20%): recent revenue growth and operating margin; an analyst assessment where a company does not publish them.
  • Momentum (20%): growth trajectory and future potential.
  • Innovation (15%): R&D intensity and how technologically advanced the company is.

Popularity (brand search demand, 15%) counts toward Overall but is not published as a column. Overall leaves out what is not known.

Scale Scores are shown on a 7–10 scale with one decimal; bars start at 7.0.

Cadence Recalculated when new figures are published; next review December 11, 2026.

Independence. Rankings are editorially independent. Scores, ranks, picks and the verdict follow the method above; no company can pay to change them.

Cite this ranking

APA

Samuel Norberg. (2026, November 11). Top 10 companies in the edge industry. In Edge Industry Statistics. Gitnux. https://gitnux.org/edge-industry-statistics/#top-companies

report visual · Comparison

Revenue of the largest edge companies

Alphabet leads with $402.8B in annual revenue (group level, converted to USD).

Alphabet$402.8B
Microsoft$281.7B
NVIDIA$130.5B
Dell Technologies$95.6B
Cisco Systems$56.7B
Akamai Technologies$4.2B
source-verifiedsec.gov · microsoft.com · dell.com · investor.cisco.com · ir.akamai.com2025

04 Statistics

Technology & Innovation

Technology & Innovation centers on AI workload placement and generative AI in edge or hybrid environments, with 84.6% planning or using it in 2025.

AI in the edge industry

  • 31% of organizations used edge computing to place AI computing and storage closer to users or data sources in 2025.[1]
  • 32% of IoT and embedded developers reported artificial intelligence as an edge-computing workload in 2024.[2]
  • 84.6% of organizations were using or planning to use generative AI in edge or hybrid environments in 2025, primarily North American enterprises.[3]
  • 36% of surveyed organizations had scaled AI at the edge in late 2025, rising to 72% expected by 2028, globally.[4]
  • 42% of IoT decision-makers identified edge processing as their top technology investment priority in 2026.[5]
  • 87% of organizations with edge deployments said their deployments met or exceeded expectations in 2026.[5]

Automation in the edge industry

  • 21% of IoT and embedded developers reported data exchange between multiple nodes across multiple sites as an edge workload in 2024.[2]
  • 21% of IoT and embedded developers reported local data analytics involving at least 1 GB of storage as an edge workload in 2024.[2]
  • 11% of IoT and embedded developers reported edge-deployed cloud workloads in 2024.[2]
  • 41% of IoT and embedded developers reported control logic as an edge-computing workload in 2024.[2]
  • 8% of IoT and embedded developers reported video processing and analytics as an edge workload in 2024.[2]
  • 55% of edge-industry survey respondents identified control, process or automation engineering expertise as core to edge-computing success in the Americas.[6]

Digital Transformation in the software and IT services sector (sector benchmark)

  • 45% of North American technology and business decision-makers planned to adopt AI and machine learning to improve business within 12 to 24 months.[7]
  • 75% of digital leaders globally planned to increase AI-related business expenditure in 2024.[7]
  • 54.8% of surveyed organizations reported having a chief digital officer or another executive responsible for digital transformation.[8]
  • 34% of surveyed organizations globally identified replacing or upgrading legacy technology as a top digital-transformation goal in 2024.[7]
  • 72% of digital leaders globally expected to increase technology spending in 2024, compared with 50% of digital laggards, according to a survey of 855 technology and business decision-makers.[7]

Technology Adoption in the software and IT services sector (sector benchmark)

  • 67.6% of IT services were delivered through cloud infrastructure among surveyed organizations in 2024.[8]
  • 57.7% of surveyed organizations reported having a chief information security officer or equivalent in 2024.[8]
  • 51.8% of surveyed organizations reported that AI solutions were somewhat or extremely rare in 2024.[8]
  • More than 50% of surveyed global IT decision-makers were exploring AI use cases or piloting AI technologies in 2024.[7]

Cloud Computing in the software and IT services sector (sector benchmark)

  • 71.7% of EU enterprises using paid cloud services used them for office software in 2025.[9]
  • 26.1% of EU enterprises using paid cloud services used computing platforms for application development, testing or deployment in 2025.[9]
  • 85.2% of EU enterprises using paid cloud services used them for email in 2025.[9]
  • 71.5% of EU enterprises using paid cloud services used them for file storage in 2025.[9]
  • 52.7% of EU enterprises with at least 10 employees used paid cloud-computing services in 2025.[9]
  • 65.5% of EU enterprises using paid cloud services used them for security software applications in 2025.[9]

Big Data in the software and IT services sector (sector benchmark)

  • 14% of enterprises with at least 10 employees across the OECD used big-data analytics on average, based on 2022 data or the latest available year.[10]
  • 3% was the lowest reported enterprise adoption rate for big-data analytics across OECD countries in the latest available data through 2023.[10]
  • 40% was the highest reported enterprise adoption rate for big-data analytics across OECD countries in the latest available data through 2023.[10]

05 Statistics

Data & Analytics

Data & Analytics emphasizes real-time processing targets and deployment requirements, including sub-100-millisecond latency demand for inferencing data transfers in 2025.

Business intelligence in the edge industry

  • 84% of telco executives expressed interest in video-monitoring edge use cases in a 2022 survey of North American and Western European operators.[11]
  • 81% of telco executives expressed interest in edge use cases for monitoring and treating illness in a 2022 survey of North American and Western European operators.[11]
  • 82% of enterprises were using or planning real-time data processing for IoT deployments in 2025, supporting business intelligence at the edge.[5]
  • 75% of enterprises were beginning to layer artificial intelligence and machine learning onto IoT deployments in 2025.[5]
  • 95% of surveyed enterprises expected measurable benefits from IoT within two years in 2025, including faster operational decision-making enabled by edge intelligence.[5]
  • 80% of surveyed organizations had deployed some form of edge AI for customer experience, rising to 93% among retail CIOs in 2025.[12]

Data analytics in the edge industry

  • 60% of customized and private AI workloads were handled in centralized clouds and hosted-edge environments in 2025.[5]
  • About half of enterprises trained AI models and moved them into commercial operation in the same location in 2025, while the remainder commonly distributed models elsewhere.[5]
  • 64% of telecom respondents planned far-edge AI deployments, positioning distributed analytics closer to users and devices than public-cloud data centers.[5]
  • 31% of respondents identified security as a challenge to scaling edge-IoT deployments in 2026, ahead of operational-technology and business-process integration at 29%.[5]
  • 82% of IoT enterprises were using or planning real-time analytics in 2025, the leading technology priority in Omdia’s survey of more than 600 enterprises across ten countries.[5]
  • Nearly 50% of enterprises demanded sub-100-millisecond latency for inferencing data transfers in 2025.[5]

Data Quality in the software and IT services sector (sector benchmark)

  • In 2025, 46% of organizations globally said they were fully confident in their data quality, across surveyed technology and business organizations.[13]
  • In 2024, 95% of enterprise data leaders and practitioners reported a data-quality issue with a direct impact on business outcomes, across companies with at least $1 billion in revenue.[14]
  • In 2025, 43% of organizations globally rated their data excellent for quality and completeness, across surveyed technology and business organizations.[13]
  • In 2025, 35% of organizations globally rated their data excellent for consistency and standardization, across surveyed technology and business organizations.[13]
  • In 2025, 46% of organizations globally rated their data excellent for accuracy and integrity, across surveyed technology and business organizations.[13]
  • In 2025, 34% of organizations globally rated their data excellent for relevance and suitability, across surveyed technology and business organizations.[13]

Data Governance in the software and IT services sector (sector benchmark)

  • In 2024, 35% of U.S. technology executives prioritized data governance among their data-management areas for the next 12 months.[15]
  • In 2024, 61% of supply-management organizations reported having a dedicated data-governance function, based on an Institute for Supply Management survey.[16]
  • In 2024, 81.7% of organizations reported having no data-governance or catalog solution as part of their governance program, according to a global governance study.[17]
  • In 2024, 32% of global technology leaders prioritized data governance among their data-management areas for the next 12 months.[15]
  • In 2026, 76% of global data leaders said their company’s AI governance did not completely keep pace with employee use of AI technology.[17]
  • In 2024, 18.3% of organizations reported having a data-governance or catalog solution as part of their governance program, according to a global governance study.[17]

KPIs in the edge industry

  • 6% of participants used liquid cooling at edge sites, indicating limited but emerging adoption of high-density thermal-management systems.[18]
  • 87% of organizations with edge deployments reported that they met or exceeded expectations in 2026, a key outcome indicator for edge programs.[5]
  • 52% of participants operated edge sites with resiliency comparable to Uptime Institute Tier I or Tier II availability levels.[18]
  • 77% of participants had deployed or planned to deploy energy-efficient UPS systems for edge sites, a power-efficiency KPI in Vertiv’s survey.[18]
  • 78% of edge-IoT deployments had moved beyond pilots in 2026, indicating progress against deployment-stage KPIs.[5]
  • 39% of participants used dedicated precision cooling at edge sites, a thermal-management KPI reported in Vertiv’s global survey.[18]

06 Statistics

Strategy & Growth

Strategy & Growth ties spending plans to on-premise edge revenue concentration, where on-premise edge accounted for 74% of edge-infrastructure revenue in 2025.

Growth in the edge industry

  • 14,000 secure and climate-neutral edge nodes are projected across the EU27 by 2030, an 88% increase from the 2025 estimate.[19]
  • 74% of total edge-infrastructure revenue came from on-premise edge in 2025, according to STL Partners.[20]
  • $380 billion is the IDC forecast for worldwide edge-computing spending by 2028, as reported by Computer Weekly.[21]
  • 40% of enterprises planned to invest more than $500 million in edge computing in Google Cloud’s 2024 survey.[22]
  • $274 billion is the forecast value of global edge-computing demand in 2030, according to STL Partners.[20]
  • 42% of organizations surveyed by Omdia ranked edge processing as their top technology investment in 2026.[5]

Differentiation in the edge industry

  • 3 edge-oriented capabilities—compute, storage and networking—were identified as core components of edge-computing resources in a 2025 market definition.[23]
  • 2 technology capabilities—private 5G and private mobile edge compute—were combined in Verizon’s 2024 NVIDIA solution for enterprise AI workloads.[24]
  • Under 20 milliseconds is the latency threshold used by the European Commission to define edge nodes serving nearby applications and users.[23]

Mergers and acquisitions in the edge industry

  • About 105 edge-computing investment transactions were recorded in 2024, according to STL Partners’ tracker.[25]
  • $16.7 billion was invested in edge-computing companies between 2020 and 2024, according to STL Partners.[25]
  • $6.3 billion was invested in edge-computing companies in 2024, the highest annual total in STL Partners’ 2020–2024 series.[25]
  • 74% of edge-computing investment value went to edge data-centre facilities in 2024.[20]
  • $8 billion had been invested in edge computing since 2020 by January 2024, according to STL Partners’ M&A analysis.[20]

Strategic partnerships in the edge industry

  • 2 companies—Verizon and NVIDIA—developed a private-5G and mobile-edge-compute solution for enterprise AI workloads in 2024.[24]
  • 2 companies—Verizon and AWS—launched a mobile-edge-computing platform using AWS Wavelength on Verizon’s 5G network.[24]
  • 3 companies—Siemens, Databricks and FFT Produktionssysteme—formed the 2026 industrial edge-to-cloud partnership announced by Siemens.[26]
  • 2 companies—Etisalat and Microsoft—partnered to deploy Azure Multi-access Edge Compute for enterprise customers in the United Arab Emirates.[27]
  • 2 companies—Siemens and NVIDIA—were identified as partners in Siemens’ edge-AI computing infrastructure, with Palo Alto Networks also contributing cybersecurity.[26]
  • 4 partnership examples—Telefónica–AWS, Verizon–AWS, Google Cloud–Ericsson–TIM and Microsoft–BT—were highlighted in a 2024 edge-computing ecosystem report.[28]

07 Statistics

People & Workforce

Hiring in the edge industry

  • 34% of Americas edge-computing survey respondents identified industrial-system or solution-architect expertise as a needed addition to their teams.[6]
  • 32% of Americas edge-computing survey respondents identified data-engineering or data-science expertise as a needed addition to their teams.[6]
  • 36% of Americas edge-computing survey respondents identified IT or solution-architect expertise as a needed addition to their teams.[6]
  • 37% of Americas edge-computing survey respondents identified cloud-computing expertise as a needed addition to their teams.[6]
  • 32% of Americas edge-computing survey respondents identified computer-networking expertise as a needed addition to their teams.[6]

Remote Work in the software and IT services sector (sector benchmark)

  • 48% of U.S. software and IT professionals surveyed worked remotely in 2026, compared with 21% in France.[29]
  • 34.8% of global software and IT services respondents worked remotely in 2026, according to the Stack Overflow Developer Survey.[29]
  • 84% of technology-services employers agreed in 2025 that the ability to work remotely is important for employee retention.[30]
  • 6% of global respondents worked fully remotely in 2025, defined as spending less than one day per week in the office.[30]
  • 10% of technology-services respondents worked under fully flexible arrangements in 2025, allowing employees substantial control over remote work.[30]

Hybrid Work in the software and IT services sector (sector benchmark)

  • 52% of U.S. employees with remote-capable jobs worked in hybrid arrangements in May 2026, according to Gallup.[31]
  • 61% of U.S. employees with remote-capable jobs preferred hybrid work in November 2025, compared with 33% preferring fully remote work.[31]
  • 47% of global respondents worked in hybrid arrangements in 2025, down from 63% in Cisco’s 2022 study.[30]
  • 56% of IT employees worked in hybrid arrangements in 2025, while 31% were fully remote and 13% attended the office daily.[32]
  • 55% of technology-services respondents worked in a hybrid arrangement in 2025, the highest share among industries measured by Cisco.[30]

Employee Engagement in the software and IT services sector (sector benchmark)

  • 54% of exclusively remote U.S. employees were thriving in May 2026, compared with 52% of hybrid employees and 49% of on-site employees with remote-capable jobs.[31]
  • 74% of respondents approved of fully flexible hybrid policies in 2025, the highest positive sentiment among the policy types Cisco measured.[30]
  • 92% of employees ranked collaboration and community as very important aspects of office culture in Cisco’s 2025 global study.[30]
  • 37% of exclusively remote U.S. employees were engaged in May 2026, compared with 34% of hybrid employees and 29% of on-site employees with remote-capable jobs.[31]
  • 22.2% of global software and IT respondents were happy with their current professional role in 2026, while 32.6% were unhappy.[29]

Change Management in the software and IT services sector (sector benchmark)

  • 44% of SAP change-management respondents identified requirements gathering as a challenge in 2025.[33]
  • 87% of SAP change-management respondents believed AI would influence change management during the five years following the 2025 survey.[33]
  • 59% of SAP change-management respondents expected AI to automate manual processes in change management, according to the 2025 survey.[33]
  • 86% of SAP change managers said in 2025 that change management gives their business a competitive advantage.[33]
  • 48% of SAP change-management respondents faced pressure in 2025 to implement changes more quickly.[33]

08 Statistics

Customer & Sales

Customer & Sales shows adoption translating into edge AI deployments for retail experience, with 93% of US retail CIOs reporting deployment in 2025.

Customer experience in the edge industry

  • 39% of retailers in the United States were satisfied with their edge-computing support in 2026.[24]
  • 40% of respondents said their edge-computing infrastructure supported customer-experience optimization in a 2023 survey.[34]
  • 34% of communications service providers cited improved customer experience and satisfaction as an incentive to deploy edge computing in 2024.[35]
  • 35.7% of surveyed organizations identified customer experience as an edge-computing workload in the European Commission's 2023–2024 survey.[36]
  • 93% of retail CIOs in the United States said they had deployed edge AI to enhance customer experience in 2025.[12]

09 Statistics

Marketing & Brand

Marketing & Brand includes ecosystem spillovers into influencer marketing, with 64% of marketers reporting dedicated and growing budgets in 2026.

Marketing in the edge industry

  • 29% of communications service providers cited support for new use cases as an incentive to deploy edge computing in 2024.[35]
  • 27% of communications service providers cited new revenue streams as an incentive to deploy edge computing in 2024.[35]
  • 22% of retailers identified partner networks to drive new revenues as a top priority for edge-enabled retail in 2020.[37]
  • 42% of retailers identified data monetization as a top business-transformation imperative for edge-enabled retail in 2020.[37]

Influencer Marketing in the software and IT services sector (sector benchmark)

  • Across B2B companies, 55% of marketing organizations were using influencers in 2025, based on an Ipsos survey of 1,500 marketing leaders.[38]
  • Across B2B companies, 58% of marketing teams reported using an always-on influencer marketing approach in the 2025 B2B Influencer Marketing Report.[39]
  • Across B2B companies, another 29% of marketing organizations planned to adopt influencer marketing within the next year in 2025, based on an Ipsos survey of 1,500 marketing leaders.[38]
  • Across technology companies, 27% of marketers reported dedicated but flat budgets for creator or influencer marketing in 2026, according to Nielsen’s global marketing survey.[40]
  • Across technology companies, 64% of marketers reported dedicated and growing budgets for creator or influencer marketing in 2026, according to Nielsen’s global marketing survey.[40]

10 Statistics

Operations & Execution

Operations & Execution focuses on operational outcomes and integration friction, including 28% of organizations reporting difficulty integrating edge-IoT systems with legacy IT systems in 2026.

Process optimization in the edge industry

  • 53% of manufacturers were using or planning to use edge AI to improve quality control in 2024.[41]
  • 42% of organizations deploying IoT ranked edge processing as their top technology investment in 2026 across ten countries.[5]
  • 62% of organizations deploying IoT had adopted edge computing architectures across ten countries in 2026.[5]
  • 54% of manufacturers were implementing or planning smart inventory management using edge-related technologies in 2024.[41]
  • 49% of manufacturers were deploying or planning edge AI applications to improve workplace safety in 2024.[41]

Operational efficiency in the edge industry

  • 25% of edge professionals supported edge locations with centralized IT staff requiring travel for maintenance or troubleshooting in 2021.[18]
  • 51% of organizations reported improved data security from edge projects in 2025 worldwide.[42]
  • 30% of edge professionals used remote access and monitoring by centralized IT sources in 2021 across surveyed regions.[18]
  • 54% of organizations reported improved operational efficiency from edge projects in 2025 worldwide.[42]
  • 12% of edge professionals outsourced management of edge sites in 2021 across surveyed regions.[18]

Quality management in the edge industry

  • Over 99.9% was the inspection accuracy achieved by an edge-AI tire-manufacturing system in 2024.[41]
  • 29% of organizations identified integration with operational technology and business processes as an edge-IoT challenge in 2026.[5]
  • 90% to 95% was the accuracy range of human tire-defect inspectors before edge AI was introduced in the cited manufacturing deployment.[41]
  • 28% of organizations reported difficulty integrating edge-IoT systems with legacy IT systems in 2026.[5]
  • 20,000 tires per day were inspected by an edge-AI quality-control system in a manufacturing deployment described in 2024.[41]

Supply chain in the edge industry

  • 37% of Asia-Pacific edge survey participants were deploying or planning new edge sites in 2021.[18]
  • 33% of data-center construction respondents reported moderate supply-chain issues in 2022.[43]
  • 30% of Latin American edge survey participants were deploying or planning new edge sites in 2021.[18]
  • 33% of North American edge survey participants had already deployed purpose-built edge sites in 2021.[18]
  • Nearly 50% of respondents involved in data-center construction reported significant supply-chain delays or other supply-chain events in 2022.[43]

Outsourcing / Offshoring in the software and IT services sector (sector benchmark)

  • Across EU enterprises sourcing business functions internationally during 2021–2023, 28.7% moved information and communication technology services abroad.[9]
  • Across European organizations, 35% planned to increase their use of nearshore outsourcing in the 2024/2025 sourcing study.[44]
  • Among German IT-service generalists, 19.5% of digital-experience services for customer projects were delivered nearshore in 2024.[45]
  • Across German digital-experience service providers, 7.6% of services for customer projects were delivered offshore in 2024.[45]
  • Across German digital-experience service providers, 13.2% of services for customer projects were delivered nearshore in 2024.[45]

11 Statistics

Finance & Pricing

Finance & Pricing quantifies ROI measurement limits, with 47% of edge customers reporting fewer than half of edge projects achieved satisfactory ROI in 2024.

Pricing strategy in the edge industry

  • 50% of edge customers measured ROI through improvements in operational efficiency in 2024.[46]
  • 43% of edge customers identified reduced data-transmission or connectivity costs as an ROI measure in 2024.[46]
  • 28% of edge customers measured ROI through making employees or customers safer in 2024.[46]
  • 33% of edge customers measured ROI through attracting or retaining customers in 2024.[46]
  • 56% of edge customers measured ROI through better performance in 2024.[46]

Cost reduction in the edge industry

  • 38% of organizations cited saving money or cutting costs as a driver of edge-computing initiatives in 2023 worldwide.[47]
  • 17% of data-center operators planned to sell power back to the grid as an efficiency or sustainability measure in 2024.[48]
  • 28% of data-center operators aimed to turn energy, power management or storage from a cost center into a revenue center in 2024.[48]
  • 47% of edge customers reported that fewer than half of their edge projects had achieved satisfactory ROI in 2024.[46]
  • 28% of data-center operators ranked achieving power-usage-effectiveness targets as an operational priority in 2024.[48]

Profitability in the edge industry

  • 31% of edge customers reported that 50% to 74% of their edge projects had achieved satisfactory ROI in 2024.[46]
  • 75% of surveyed edge customers planned to increase edge spending in 2024.[46]
  • 3% of edge customers reported that less than 10% of their edge projects had achieved satisfactory ROI in 2024.[46]
  • 37% of edge customers reported that 25% to 49% of their edge projects had achieved satisfactory ROI in 2024.[46]
  • 1% of edge customers reported that all of their edge projects had achieved satisfactory ROI in 2024.[46]

Financial planning in the edge industry

  • 21% of organizations cited lack of budget as a challenge to scaling edge-IoT deployments in 2026 across ten countries.[5]
  • More than 15% was the projected year-over-year increase in worldwide edge-computing spending for 2024.[33]
  • $232 billion was projected for worldwide edge-computing spending in 2024.[33]

12 Statistics

Product & Service

Product & Service tracks product development pace and deployment progression, including 78% of edge-IoT deployments beyond pilot stage in 2026.

Product development in the edge industry

  • 90% of surveyed U.S. CIOs planned to increase edge-AI budgets for 2025, supporting continued development of edge products and platforms.[12]
  • 47% of surveyed U.S. CIOs were currently using or planning large-language-model and computer-vision deployments at the edge in 2025.[12]
  • 97% of 301 U.S. CIOs had edge AI deployed or on their roadmap in 2025, indicating broad product-development demand for edge AI capabilities.[12]
  • 53% of respondents in a 2025 U.S. CIO survey were already using or planning multimodal AI at the edge, making it the leading edge-AI model category.[12]
  • 40% of enterprises planned to invest more than $500 million in edge computing, according to a 2024 survey of 640 business leaders worldwide.[22]

Product lifecycle in the edge industry

  • Edge infrastructure was projected to rise from 21% to 27% of IT infrastructure over five years in Vertiv’s global survey.[18]
  • 48% of participants in China were deploying or planning new edge sites, the highest regional share reported in Vertiv’s survey.[18]
  • 78% of edge-IoT deployments had progressed beyond the pilot stage in 2026 across a survey of 570 decision-makers in ten countries.[5]
  • 34% of U.S. CIOs surveyed in 2025 were testing edge AI with plans to deploy within 24 months.[12]
  • 53% of edge-IoT deployments had achieved moderate-to-extensive scale across business units or enterprise-wide in 2026.[5]

After-sales in the edge industry

  • 69% of participants ranked availability among their top three edge-network expansion challenges, making uptime support a major service requirement.[18]
  • 30% of participants used centralized remote access and monitoring to support edge technologies, while 12% outsourced edge-site management.[18]
  • 33% of participants relied on IT staff located at or near edge facilities to support operations and maintenance.[18]
  • 42% of edge sites had more than four IT racks and power requirements above 20 kW, creating demand for specialized maintenance and support services.[18]
  • 85% of participants ranked security among their top three challenges when expanding edge networks, increasing the need for post-deployment support.[18]

Value proposition in the edge industry

  • 74% of U.S. CIOs identified cost reduction as a leading priority for future edge-AI deployments during the following 12–24 months.[12]
  • 34% of telcos cited improved customer experience and satisfaction as an incentive to deploy edge computing in 2024.[35]
  • 24% of telcos cited scalability for future needs as an incentive to deploy edge computing in 2024.[35]
  • 29% of telcos cited support for new use cases as an incentive to deploy edge computing in 2024.[35]
  • 34% of telcos cited network cost savings as an incentive to deploy edge computing in 2024.[35]

13 Statistics

Sustainability & Ethics

Sustainability & Ethics reports site-level efficiency metrics, including EdgeConneX average power usage effectiveness of 1.32 in 2025.

Sustainability in the edge industry

  • 1.32 was EdgeConneX’s average power usage effectiveness in 2025 globally.[49]
  • 93% of EdgeConneX sites used water-free cooling in 2025 globally.[49]
  • 471 MW of data-center capacity was installed by EdgeConneX in 2025 globally.[49]
  • 1.24 was the design PUE recorded at Digital Edge’s EDGE2 facility in Jakarta in 2024.[50]
  • 135 MW was the capacity of the solar farm adjacent to Edged’s Bilbao-Arasur data center under construction.[51]

ESG in the edge industry

  • 83 MW of solar power was secured for Digital Edge’s Navi Mumbai campus in India in 2025.[50]
  • 800 billion South Korean won was the green loan raised for Digital Edge’s 96 MW Seoul data-center campus in 2025.[50]
  • 1,500-plus employee volunteer hours were recorded by Digital Edge in 2025.[50]
  • 12% of Digital Edge’s waste was composted in 2025 across its reported operations.[50]
  • Platinum was Digital Edge’s 2024 EcoVadis sustainability rating, placing it in the top 1% of data-center companies.[50]

Ethics in the edge industry

  • 18% of EdgeConneX’s management team were women in 2023 globally.[49]
  • 21% of EdgeConneX’s management team were women in 2025 globally.[49]
  • 89% of EdgeConneX employees participated in ethics and anti-corruption training in 2025 globally.[49]
  • 12 recordable employee health-and-safety incidents were reported by EdgeConneX in 2025 globally.[49]
  • 0.09 was EdgeConneX’s lost-time incident rate including contractors in 2025 globally.[49]

CSR in the edge industry

  • 34% of non-recyclable waste from a Digital Edge event was diverted to fuel reuse in Indonesia.[52]
  • 38.9% of waste at Digital Edge’s EDGE1 facility in Jakarta was recycled in 2023.[52]
  • 56% of waste was recycled at Digital Edge’s PUS1 facility in South Korea in 2023.[52]
  • 61% of waste was recycled at Digital Edge’s SEL1 facility in South Korea in 2023.[52]
  • 60% of waste from a Digital Edge event was diverted to recycling in Indonesia.[52]

Circular economy in the edge industry

  • 20% of Digital Edge’s 2025 waste was metal by material type.[50]
  • 25% of Digital Edge’s waste was sent to landfill in 2025 across its reported operations.[50]
  • 6,186 kg of waste was generated by Digital Edge in 2025 across its reported operations.[50]
  • 12% of Digital Edge’s 2025 waste was organic material by material type.[50]
  • 6% of Digital Edge’s waste was treated through incineration and energy recovery in 2025.[50]

Carbon footprint in the edge industry

  • 541,957 tonnes of Scope 3 carbon-dioxide equivalent emissions were reported by EdgeConneX in 2025 globally.[49]
  • 498,287 tonnes of Scope 3 carbon-dioxide equivalent emissions were reported by EdgeConneX in 2024 globally.[49]
  • 367,950 tonnes of Scope 3 carbon-dioxide equivalent emissions were reported by EdgeConneX in 2023 globally.[49]
  • 13,176 tonnes of Scope 1 carbon-dioxide equivalent emissions were reported by EdgeConneX in 2025 globally.[49]
  • 1,179.7 tonnes of carbon-dioxide equivalent emissions per MW was EdgeConneX’s operational carbon intensity in 2025 globally.[49]

15 Statistics

Globalization & Expansion

Globalization & Expansion quantifies EU node deployment scale, with Germany at 1,771 secure on-premise edge nodes deployed in 2025.

Globalization in the edge industry

  • Germany, France and the Netherlands together accounted for 51% of EU27 public edge nodes in 2025.[19]
  • 629 secure on-premise edge nodes were deployed in Italy in 2025.[19]
  • 737 secure on-premise edge nodes were deployed in France in 2025, the second-highest total in the EU27.[19]
  • 536 secure on-premise edge nodes were deployed in Poland in 2025.[19]
  • 1,771 secure on-premise edge nodes were deployed in Germany in 2025, the highest total among EU27 countries.[19]

Supplier management in the edge industry

  • 3 companies—Siemens, Databricks and FFT Produktionssysteme—were involved in the 2026 industrial edge-to-cloud integration announced by Siemens.[26]
  • 30,000 potential industrial customers could be served by the Siemens–Databricks–FFT edge-to-cloud offering, according to FFT Produktionssysteme.[26]
  • 3 technology suppliers—Siemens, NVIDIA and Palo Alto Networks—were named in Siemens’ 2026 secure edge-AI infrastructure offering.[26]

Stakeholder management in the edge industry

  • 53% of surveyed organizations had achieved moderate-to-extensive edge scale across business units or enterprise-wide in 2026.[5]
  • 570 IoT decision-makers across 10 countries participated in Omdia’s 2026 research on enterprise edge-computing adoption.[5]
  • 68% of organizations reported increased edge spending over the previous year in 2024, according to 451 Research.[47]

Distribution channels in the edge industry

  • 1,000-plus internet-service-provider networks were connected to Edgio’s edge delivery network, according to the company profile.[59]
  • 24 countries were included in IDC’s worldwide edge-computing spending forecast, covering enterprise and service-provider spending through 2028.[21]
  • 50 data centres were operated by EdgeUno across Latin America in 2023, illustrating a regional edge-connectivity distribution footprint.[59]
  • 300-plus delivery locations formed Edgio’s global edge network, connected to more than 1,000 internet-service-provider networks.[59]

Key questions about the edge industry

What is the edge data center market size and where is it heading?
The global edge data center market was valued at $34.8 billion in 2025 and is estimated at $40.0 billion in 2026.
How fast is the edge market growing?
The market is projected to reach $105.8 billion by 2033 with a 14.9% forecast CAGR from 2026 to 2033.
Which companies lead the edge industry?
NVIDIA leads Gitnux's 2026 edge ranking with an Overall score of 9.6, with revenue growth of 65.47% and operating margin of 60.38%. Microsoft is the highest-ranked cloud and hybrid infrastructure provider at 9.5, driven by Azure and other cloud services growth of 34% in fiscal 2025.
What technology shift is most visible across enterprise deployments?
Organizations are moving from experimentation to production deployment: 53% achieved moderate-to-extensive edge scale across business units in 2026.
How is the market structured across supply types?
The market combines large infrastructure, cloud, telecommunications and colocation providers with specialist edge operators.
What constraints most often block scaling edge programs?
Scaling deployments remains constrained by organizational and implementation challenges, with security reported as a leading scaling barrier in multiple surveys.
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