data centers distributed in the cities

video games have historically accelerated 

technological development in the commercial market 

pc gaming and console gaming have created a market demand 

for faster CPUs, GPUs, RAM, storage, broadband and so on 

the benefits for most people who are non gamers have been 

faster internet, better computers and cloud computing 

pc gaming and console gaming 

have always created a market demand for smaller transistors 

and those smaller transistors led to the creation of smart phones 

recent advancements in ai has been possible 

because of faster GPUs that were originally created for gaming 

almost all people have smart phones 

connected to fast cellular networks 

and cellular networks are built on open standards 

to enable smart phones from different companies 

to connect to the same cellular networks 

but smart phones have weak hardware 

and powerful hardware is required for the next step in mobile devices 

such as foldable / rollable smart phones, gaming tablets, 

ar/vr headsets, ar/vr glasses and ar/vr contact lenses 

that computing hardware could be distributed throughout the cities 

to enable low latencies to users 

in the same way that 5g base stations are distributed in the cities 

so if gamers use their smart phones for cloud gaming in the cities 

then their smart phones functions as a screen with a gamepad 

while the games runs on data centers 

since data centers have powerful hardware 

the problem is that there is latency 

between the gamer's smart phone and the data center 

but that latency could be partly averted 

if data centers were distributed throughout the cities 

so instead of only a base station 

there could be server racks with powerful hardware 

connected to each base station 

but for that to function 

different cloud gaming companies 

would need to run on the same hardware 

that the data centers distributed in the cities would have 

which would require that the computing hardware is open standards 

which could be linux running on open source / open standards X86 

or linux on ARM or linux on RISC-V 

in a similar way to how cellular networks are built on open standards 

for companies it would be a massive investment 

to build distributed data centers in the cities 

but it could be a natural evolution 

when more and more smart phone users 

will demand lower latencies to their AIs

which reside in data centers located outside the cities 

whatever happens, it's likely to be gamers 

that drives the market demand for better technologies 

in mobile devices and cellular networks market 

like the gamers did in the computer market