Data Infrastructure, Not AI Models, Will Drive IT Spend in 2025

As organizations race to implement Artificial Intelligence (AI) initiatives, they’re encountering an unexpected bottleneck: the massive cost of data infrastructure required to support AI applications.

While Gartner projects a 9.8% increase in IT spending for 2025, the real story isn’t about models or compute resources — it’s about the exponential growth in data infrastructure costs that threatens to make AI initiatives economically unsustainable.

The Scale of the Financial Challenge 

Traditional data architectures weren’t designed…