An upcoming forecast charting the market for telco GPUaaS, and touching on the AI-RAN market, has unearthed several elements that will surprise readers. This week, we will dive into the relationship between telco and hyperscaler data center numbers, and how it changes in different regions based on the level of maturity. Globally, there are around 10,500 data centers that can be found through public sources. The real number will be higher, but these known data centers are broadly ones that could be used for housing compute workloads – the core focus of the edge computing and GPUaaS enquiries we are making. North America dominates this global view, holding nearly half of all locations. Europe (which includes West, East, and also…