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title: 'Gartner: more than $3.5T of AI infrastructure spending could face impairment by 2030'
url: 'https://www.securteksecurity.com/news/gartner-3-5t-ai-infrastructure-spending-impairment-2030'
markdown: 'https://www.securteksecurity.com/news/gartner-3-5t-ai-infrastructure-spending-impairment-2030.md'
date: '2026-10-14'
description: 'Gartner expects nearly $1 trillion of provider infrastructure spend in 2026 and another $6 trillion in 2027 to 2030, estimates data-center owners would need $8.5 trillion in cumulative revenue through 2030 to cover spend, financing and a 12 percent return, against at most $3.6 trillion in attributa…'
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    - AI
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# [Gartner: more than $3.5T of AI infrastructure spending could face impairment by 2030](https://www.securteksecurity.com/news/gartner-3-5t-ai-infrastructure-spending-impairment-2030)

   14th Oct 2026  

Gartner expects nearly $1 trillion of provider infrastructure spend in 2026 and another $6 trillion in 2027 to 2030, estimates data-center owners would need $8.5 trillion in cumulative revenue through 2030 to cover spend, financing and a 12 percent return, against at most $3.6 trillion in attributable AI revenue in its forecast, and predicts over 80 percent of neocloud providers will cease independent operations by 2030.

Sources: [Gartner](https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2026-10-14-gartner-says-over-us-dollars-three-and-a-half-trillion-of-artificial-intelligence-infrastructure-spending-could-be-exposed-to-impairment-by-the-end-of-2030); The Hindu BusinessLine

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