Vodafone’s Pairpoint plots tower-based edge compute to meet AI demand

Joe Purnell2026-04-14T13:56:00

Source: Pairpoint

Vodafone’s Web3 joint venture partners Nillion and Chainlink to remove financing as a blocker to cell tower-based edge data centre build, providing ‘trusted’ returns to investors and ‘balancing’ the AI economy…

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Themes: AI compute at the edge; Decentralised infrastructure; Distributed data centres; Edge AI; Edge compute financing; Machine‑to‑machine commerce; Micro data centres; Post‑quantum security; Tower monetisation; Usage‑based financing.
People: David Palmer; Jorge Bento; Lukas Bruell; Miguel de Vega; Zak Doffman.
Geographic: Europe; Portugal; Spain; United Kingdom.
Organisations: Chainlink; Digital Asset Broker; Gridle; Elisa; Nillion; Pairpoint; Sumitomo; Vantage Towers; Vodafone; Vodafone Spain.

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