{"id":1024117,"date":"2026-07-28T08:55:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T03:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1024117"},"modified":"2026-07-28T11:13:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T05:43:45","slug":"global-it-spending-to-rise-14-to-6-37-trillion-in-2026-as-ai-drives-investment-gartner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/28\/global-it-spending-to-rise-14-to-6-37-trillion-in-2026-as-ai-drives-investment-gartner\/","title":{"rendered":"Global IT spending to rise 14% to $6.37 trillion in 2026 as AI drives investment: Gartner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Worldwide IT spending is projected to reach $6.37 trillion in 2026, up 14.2% from 2025, as organisations increase spending on AI infrastructure, cloud platforms and software, according to a new forecast by Gartner. <\/p>\n<p>The research and advisory firm said spending growth will be led by data centre systems and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), as companies build the computing capacity needed to support AI workloads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Worldwide IT spending is projected to reach $6.37 trillion in 2026, up 14.2% from 2025, as organisations increase spending on AI infrastructure, cloud platforms and software, according to a new forecast by Gartner. The research and advisory firm said spending growth will be led by data centre systems and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), as companies build the computing capacity needed to support AI workloads.<\/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":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1024117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024117","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=1024117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1024143,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024117\/revisions\/1024143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1024117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1024117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1024117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}