New Delhi, June 10 (IANS) Global electricity demand for data centres is pegged to jump 26.4 per cent in 2026, with consumption rising to 565 terawatt hours, up from 447TWh in 2025, a report said on Wednesday.The estimated surge in consumption was attributed to compute‑intensive artificial intelligence workloads pushing power needs to unprecedented levels, the report from a business and technology insights company. Gartner, Inc. said.The report said that data centre power demand will reach 132 …
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New Delhi, June 1 (IANS) End‑user spending on public cloud services in India is expected to grow 28.1 per cent to total $17.5 billion in 2026, up from $13.7 billion in 2025, a report said on Monday.The report from business and technology insights company Gartner said strong enterprise demand for AI‑ready cloud infrastructure is redefining cloud investment priorities.“This is further fueled by rising demand for application modernization, digital sovereignty, digital service delivery and mor…
New Delhi, May 25 (IANS) US-based technology firm Microsoft has begun scaling back access to Anthropic’s Claude Code among its employees and is redirecting engineers towards GitHub Copilot CLI as surging AI usage drives up enterprise computing costs, according to multiple reports.Reports said the technology company had earlier expanded access to Claude Code across thousands of employees, including developers, project managers and designers, to encourage experimentation with AI-assisted coding …
New Delhi, May 19 (IANS) Worldwide spending on artificial intelligence is projected to jump 47 per cent year-on-year to $2.59 trillion in 2026, driven largely by rising investments in AI infrastructure and AI-optimised servers as enterprises and cloud providers accelerate adoption of generative AI and agentic workflows, a report said on Tuesday. The report from Gartner said AI‑optimized infrastructure including AI‑optimized IaaS, servers, network fabric, processing semiconductors and devices…
New Delhi, May 18 (IANS) Nearly forty percent of government organisations across the globe will establish dedicated TrustOps functions by 2028 to combat deep fake identity impersonation and disinformation-as-a-service (DaaS), a report said on Monday.The report from a business and technology insights company Gartner, Inc. urged government organisations to urgently establish trust capabilities, such as transitioning from reactive fact-checking to a proactive trust architecture, to defend against d…
New Delhi, April 22 (IANS) Global IT spending is pegged to reach $6.31 trillion in 2026, an increase of 13.5 per cent from 2025, because of the accelerating adoption of artificial intelligence (AI), a report said on Wednesday.The surge is fuelled by rapid investments in AI infrastructure, advanced memory, and high-performance computing systems as enterprises scale AI workloads, according to a Gartner analysis.Segment-wise, data centre systems are expected to record the fastest growth, rising nea…
New Delhi, April 20 (IANS) Technology companies with successful artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives invest up to four times more in core capabilities such as data quality, governance, AI-ready talent and change management, even as only 39 per cent of technology leaders are confident of seeing positive financial returns from their AI investments, a report said on Monday.According to a report by Gartner, higher investments in foundational areas play a critical role in driving AI success acros…
New Delhi, April 15 (IANS) Worldwide PC shipments grew 4 per cent year-on-year (YoY) to 62.8 million units in the first quarter of 2026, a report said on Wednesday.The data compiled by Gartner noted that the growth in PC shipments during the January–March quarter was not entirely reflective of real consumer demand.Instead, vendors and channel partners increased inventory levels in anticipation of rising component costs in the second quarter of 2026.Rishi Padhi, Research Principal at Gartner, s…
New Delhi, April 8 (IANS) Global semiconductor revenue is projected to exceed $1.3 trillion in 2026, marking the fastest growth in over two decades, according to a report released on Wednesday.The report by research firm Gartner said the industry is expected to register a 64 per cent growth in 2026 amid strong demand from artificial intelligence (AI) processing, data centre infrastructure and rising memory prices.”Amid high demand for AI processing, data centre networking and power, and memory p…
New Delhi, March 9 (IANS) End‑user spending on information security in India is projected to total $3.4 billion in 2026, marking an increase of 11.7 per cent from 2025, a report said on Monday.The report from Gartner said that security software will remain the largest and fastest‑growing segment in 2026, with spending expected to grow 12.4 per cent as organisations prioritise infrastructure and cloud security.The network security and security services are expected to see massive expansion, b…