Global spending on AI will rise to more than $2.5 trillion US dollars by 2026, according to new figures from US market research firm Gartner. According to BigData Insider , the bulk of these expenditures does not flow into applications, but rather into servers, platforms, and data centers. This primarily supports the industrial infrastructure for machine learning. Spending on actual applications is significantly lower. AI Infrastructure Consumes More Than Half of Spending According to Gartner’s