AI Magazine May 2026 Issue 42 | Page 95

INFRASTRUCTURE
The numbers are striking. IDC reports that enterprise spending on compute and storage hardware for AI grew by 166 % year-on-year in the second quarter of 2025. Gartner estimates that worldwide AI spending reached US $ 1.5tn in 2025, with data centre systems spend rising nearly 47 % in that year alone.
The global GPU server market, valued at US $ 171bn in 2025, is forecast to reach US $ 730bn by 2030. These are not marginal figures. They represent a fundamental re-engineering of how digital infrastructure is conceived, procured and operated.

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