
You can't engineer around physics
Every AI request today travels to a distant data center and back.
400–600 ms of latency rules out real time.
- Cloud AI latency
- 400–600ms+
- Human perception threshold
- <90ms
- of enterprise data processed at the edge by 2030
- 75%
Six devices on dark plinths, from a smartphone to a robot arm, linked by a long dashed road to a cloud data center on the horizon. A request travels out and back as a counter runs to 600 ms; a marker near the devices shows how far it gets in the 90 ms of human perception.








