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CIOs Must Prepare Now for the Crushing AI Cost Wave

Gartner Research

CIOs Must Prepare Now for the Crushing AI Cost Wave



As AI adoption accelerates across the enterprise, it creates a growing wave of costs that will ultimately surface in IT operations and budgets. CIOs must learn from past technology waves to identify, track and take action now to avoid being crushed by the AI cost wave. Download this Gartner Research to learn more about the early-warning indicators to identify the AI cost wave.

Gartner, CIOs Must Prepare Now for the Crushing AI Cost Wave, Robert Naegle, Lauren Wheatley, James Anderson, Shruthi Shankel, 22 May 2026

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