2025 State of AI infrastructure

This report, based on a survey of 500+ global technology leaders, uncovers the key challenges and opportunities in building a robust, secure, and cost-effective AI-ready cloud.

Key findings include:

• Universal adoption: gen AI adoption is widespread across industries and regions
• Critical challenges: Data quality and security are the greatest challenges for gen AI adoption, as this report reveals, ensuring data integrity and protection is paramount
• Cost and benefit: Cost efficiency is a top consideration, but also one of the primary benefits of effective AI innovation
• Infrastructure focus: Proliferating use cases for gen AI in IoT and mobile devices have sharpened the infrastructure focus on security and distributed workflows