{"id":1028237,"date":"2026-08-12T08:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T02:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1028237"},"modified":"2026-08-12T09:21:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T03:51:41","slug":"ai-infrastructure-spending-set-to-nearly-double-to-42-3-billion-in-2026-gartner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/12\/ai-infrastructure-spending-set-to-nearly-double-to-42-3-billion-in-2026-gartner\/","title":{"rendered":"AI infrastructure spending set to nearly double to $42.3 billion in 2026: Gartner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Global spending on infrastructure designed for artificial intelligence (AI) workloads is expected to almost double in 2026, according to Gartner. <\/p>\n<p>As per the report, total AI-optimized IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) in 2025 was at $21.5 billion. In 2026, it increased to $42.2 billion. This is 96.4% increase from the previous year. Gartner expects the figure to rise further to $66.1 billion in 2027, marking a 56.5% increase from 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global spending on infrastructure designed for artificial intelligence (AI) workloads is expected to almost double in 2026, according to Gartner. As per the report, total AI-optimized IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) in 2025 was at $21.5 billion. In 2026, it increased to $42.2 billion. This is 96.4% increase from the previous year. Gartner expects the figure to rise further to $66.1 billion in 2027, marking a 56.5% increase from 2026.<\/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":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1028237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028237","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=1028237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1028273,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028237\/revisions\/1028273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}