There are niches, and there are niches. That will be true for the edge computing ecosystem as much as it is true for other industry segments. Consider MetroEdge which wants to build a national grid of “state-of-the-art, high-performance, micro-scalable data center computing facilities in traditionally underserved urban/metro areas.”
“MetroEdge is a Minority Business Enterprise (MBE),” the company says. As has proven to be the case in the past, that strategy entails getting a percentage of larger contracts won by larger firms, since the federal government often has requirements or preferences that some percentage of new contracts go to firms headed by people of color or women.
The business strategy is arbitrage of government contracting rules, and there is a proven niche strategy at work, at least for small firms.
“Our high performance Edge Computing mesh network of micro data centers in urban areas across the U.S. generates significant economic development in underserved communities, while enabling low-latency data transmission needs for the autonomous vehicle industry, IoT, and local Fortune 1000 business demand for high-compute private cloud services, while leveraging investment in QOZ’s (qualified opportunity zone’s),” Metro Edge says.
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