Spending on data centre systems in India to increase 19.1% this year

Spending connected information centre systems successful India is expected to summation 19.1 per cent successful 2025, astir doubling its maturation complaint from 2024, according to latest forecast by Gartner connected Tuesday.
Software and IT services are large drivers of IT spending maturation successful India, expanding 16.9 per cent and 11.2 per cent successful 2025, respectively.

“While bundle spending is propelled by the terms premium of GenAI-enabled solutions, IT services spending is fueled by enterprises' request for cloudification, digitization, and consulting services,” said said Naveen Mishra, VP Analyst astatine Gartner.

India's information centre marketplace has attracted $60 cardinal from some home and planetary investors betwixt 2019-2024, and is reportedly expected to surpass $100 cardinal successful cumulative concern commitments by the extremity of 2027, according to different study by existent property advisor CBRE South Asia past month.

Segments including information halfway systems, devices and bundle volition spot double-digit maturation successful 2025, mostly owed to generative AI (GenAI) hardware upgrades, according to Gartner.
However, these upgraded segments volition not differentiate themselves successful presumption of functionality yet, adjacent with caller hardware.

“Enterprises are investing successful AI-ready infrastructure for targeted usage cases,” said Mishra. The accent connected accelerated servers for AI workloads is simply a important driver, resulting successful accrued end-user spending successful this conception successful 2025 compared to the erstwhile year.

Meanwhile, worldwide IT spending is expected to scope $5.61 trillion successful 2025, an summation of 9.8 per cent from 2024.

“While budgets for CIOs are increasing, a important information volition simply offset terms increases wrong their recurrent spending,” said John-David Lovelock, distinguished VP expert astatine Gartner.
By 2026, implicit 50 per cent of bundle walk wrong exertion bundle volition beryllium influenced by GenAI.

As enterprises absorption connected processing and enhancing technological frameworks for AI, concern successful tools and platforms for deployment, management, and scaling volition increase, added Mishra.