{"id":1005080,"date":"2026-04-27T09:36:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T04:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1005080"},"modified":"2026-04-27T09:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T04:28:08","slug":"ai-deflation-and-global-slowdown-weigh-on-it-services-growth-outlook-fy27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/27\/ai-deflation-and-global-slowdown-weigh-on-it-services-growth-outlook-fy27\/","title":{"rendered":"AI deflation and global slowdown weigh on IT services growth outlook FY27"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Global uncertainty, a slowdown in client spending, and emerging \u201cAI deflation\u201d are weighing on the near-term outlook for the IT services industry, with analysts pencilling in softer growth for FY27. <\/p>\n<p>The sector is expected to post muted revenue expansion of around 3\u20134 per cent in the near term, as productivity gains from artificial intelligence begin to compress traditional pricing models. Analysts estimate a 2\u20133 per cent AI-led revenue deflation in both FY27 and FY28, as early gains from generative AI reduce billable hours and weaken the headcount-led revenue structure before new AI-driven income streams scale up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global uncertainty, a slowdown in client spending, and emerging \u201cAI deflation\u201d are weighing on the near-term outlook for the IT services industry, with analysts pencilling in softer growth for FY27. The sector is expected to post muted revenue expansion of around 3\u20134 per cent in the near term, as productivity gains from artificial intelligence begin to compress traditional pricing models. Analysts estimate a 2\u20133 per cent AI-led revenue deflation in both FY27 and FY28, as early gains from generative AI reduce billable hours and weaken the headcount-led revenue structure before new AI-driven income streams scale up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1005080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1005103,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005080\/revisions\/1005103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}