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This IDC forecast frames AI infrastructure as a board-level budgeting problem: rising "techflation" in processors, memory, and datacentre power and cooling, plus pressure to build AI capacity in owned facilities rather than rent it. The predictions are analyst projections, not measured outcomes, so the numbers are best read as signals of enterprise planning pressure. For AI and quantum readers, the practical takeaway is that compute cost and sovereignty requirements are shaping where AI workloads will run.

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FutureScape 2027: Three Decisions Are Closing on You. Here’s What to Do Before They Shut.

IDCOctober 30, 20268 min read

Sometime in the next planning cycle, someone will ask you a question with no comfortable answer. Could you justify a double-digit increase in AI infrastructure spending to your board, and would your sovereignty audit back you up? For a growing number of enterprises, the question is already live. IDC FutureScape 2027, IDC’s annual set of top technology predictions, places three decisions in the closing window, where the big decisions are nearly made and an opportunity is about to become a disadvantage. One of them: IDC predicts that by 2027, 45% of G2000 organizations will justify exactly that kind of increase. Missed the webinar? Watch all ten worldwide predictions in the webinar replay. This post extends our launch blog, IDC FutureScape 2027: The Great Rewrite Comes With Deadlines, which introduced the closing, open, and emerging windows. IDC’s Rick Villars, who presented the webinar, said the main task in the…

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