NTT Data and Schneider Electric unveil joint AI at the Edge

At MWC24 the firms jointly announced a strategic partnership integrating edge, private 5G, IoT and modular data centres to support the demands being created by generative AI applications deployed at the edge.

The joint offering, which combines NTT Data’s Edge as a Service with Schneider Electric’s EcoStruxure, has been designed to maximise energy efficiency and meet the burgeoning demands of compute-intensive tasks such as machine vision, predictive maintenance and other AI inferencing applications at the edge.

“We've listened to our customers and know that processing vast amount of data generated by edge devices is where the future of digital transformation lies,” said Shahid Ahmed, EVP New Ventures and Innovation at NTT. The company recently stated in its Edge Advantage report that nearly 70 per cent of enterprises were accelerating edge adoption to solve critical business challenges.

NTT Data and Schneider Electric have also announced they are delivering the first private 5G enabled deployment of an EcoStruxure Data Center at Marienpark Berlin, a 30-hectare innovation park.