Gartner Forecasts Global AI Spending to Hit $2.6 Trillion in 2026
Worldwide spending on artificial intelligence is projected to reach $2.59 trillion in 2026, growing 47% year-on-year, as hyperscalers, cloud providers, and technology vendors continue aggressively expanding AI infrastructure capacity, according to a new forecast from Gartner.
According to Gartner, AI infrastructure will remain the largest segment of the market over the next several years, accounting for more than 45% of total AI spending. The firm said demand for AI-optimized cloud infrastructure, servers, semiconductors, and networking systems is accelerating rapidly as companies prepare for increasingly compute-intensive generative AI and agentic AI workloads.
John-David Lovelock, VP Analyst at Gartner said spending on AI infrastructure is being driven largely by vendors and hyperscalers building capacity ahead of expected enterprise AI demand.
“Through the next several years, the need for capacity will make AI infrastructure, including AI-optimized IaaS, AI-optimized servers, AI network fabric, AI processing semiconductors and devices, the largest segment of the market,...
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