India, Sept. 14 -- India's next digital leap will not be won inside a data center. It will be won in the last mile in factories, farms, and villages far from the country's high-tech corridors. As 5G rolls out and AI adoption accelerates, the binding constraint is no longer bandwidth or raw computing power. It is distance. The fix is to move processing closer to where data is created and build that capability inside India rather than route around it.

The Latency War 5G without edge computing is a fast car stuck in traffic. The network delivers speed, but every request still has to travel to a distant central server, hitting the same bottleneck it always did. Edge computing removes that detour, letting data get processed right where it is ...