US EditionGlobal AI Adoption to Push IT Spending Beyond $5.4 Trillion in 2025
NORTH AMERICA AND WESTERN EUROPE, JUL 15 – Despite a strategic pause on new spending, AI infrastructure investments are rising, with AI-optimized server spending projected to triple by 2027, Gartner reports.
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AI driving IT spending despite global uncertainty
Worldwide IT spending 2025 will total $5.43 trillion in 2025, an increase of 7.9% from 2024. AI-related infrastructure, such as data centre systems, will surge while both software and services growth will slow down because of global uncertainty, a forecast from market research firm Gartner shows. “Economic (41%) and geopolitical (32%) shocks present the greatest risk according to business leaders.” “While there is a business pause on net-new sp…
Despite this, the analyst firm asserts, ongoing digitalization initiatives related to artificial intelligence and generative AI are not being affected. “[Although] software and services spending growth is expected to slow in 2025 due to this ‘uncertainty pause,’ spending on AI-related infrastructure, such as data center systems, continues to increase,” says John-David Lovelock, vice president and analyst at Gartner.
Gartner predicts a worldwide growth of IT expenditure by almost eight percent for 2025 – driven by high investments in AI infrastructure.
Global IT spend to hit $5,43trn this year
Worldwide IT spending is expected to total $5,43-trillion in 2025, an increase of 7,9% from 2024, according to the latest forecast by Gartner. “While there is a business pause on net-new spending due to a spike in global uncertainty, the effect is subsumed by ongoing AI and generative AI (GenAI) digitisation initiatives,” says John-David Lovelock, distinguished vice-president analyst at Gartner. “For instance, both software and services spending…
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