{"id":1038761,"date":"2026-09-26T08:09:47","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T02:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1038761"},"modified":"2026-09-26T08:12:49","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T02:42:49","slug":"ai-infrastructure-investment-seen-surging-to-769-billion-in-2026-amid-growing-safety-concerns-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/26\/ai-infrastructure-investment-seen-surging-to-769-billion-in-2026-amid-growing-safety-concerns-2\/","title":{"rendered":"AI infrastructure investment seen surging to $769 billion in 2026 amid growing safety concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Investment in artificial intelligence infrastructure and model architectures is on track to surge more than fivefold to about $769 billion in 2026, underscoring the scale of capital flowing into AI even as leading developers and industry executives raise concerns over the pace and safety of the technology&#8217;s development, according to McKinsey&#8217;s Technology Trends Outlook 2026. <\/p>\n<p>The estimate is based on nearly $384 billion invested in the first half of 2026 and assumes the current pace continues through the year. It compares with $145 billion invested in the technology in 2025, making AI infrastructure and model architectures the largest-funded technology trend covered by McKinsey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investment in artificial intelligence infrastructure and model architectures is on track to surge more than fivefold to about $769 billion in 2026, underscoring the scale of capital flowing into AI even as leading developers and industry executives raise concerns over the pace and safety of the technology&#8217;s development, according to McKinsey&#8217;s Technology Trends Outlook 2026. The estimate is based on nearly $384 billion invested in the first half of 2026 and assumes the current pace continues through the year. It compares with $145 billion invested in the technology in 2025, making AI infrastructure and model architectures the largest-funded technology trend [&hellip;]<\/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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1038761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038761","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=1038761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1038786,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038761\/revisions\/1038786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}