Edge Vs. Cloud TCO: The Strategic Tipping Point For AI Inference
CIO, December 11,2025
AI isn't about if anymore - it's where. Run inference at the edge when speed, privacy or outages matter, and use the cloud for scale.
For any organization, the question is no longer if to use AI, but where to run it to maximize strategic return on investment (ROI). The introduction of sophisticated AI-from massive Generative AI models used for content creation to high-volume Agentic AI systems driving autonomous decisions-has fundamentally challenged the established economics of computing.