Executive Summary

• AI will continue to dominate technology conversations and significant investments will continue throughout 2026 by vendors and enterprise customers alike
• Starting in 2H26, we expect executives and boardrooms to begin questioning the realities of AI as it relates go-to-market strategies and examine the returns from AI investments
• We anticipate this will result in reviews of the viability of existing and future AI projects as organizations plan for CY27 and FY28
• Technology leaders will engage in analyses and assessments of long-term strategies on how to manage data platforms, placement, presentation, protection, retention, and governance
• We predict that concerned stakeholders and shareholders will seek to understand the environmental impact of powering and cooling the logarithmic growth of datacenters to support new, emerging, and sustaining technologies that require substantial processor and data infrastructures

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