Source: SiliconANGLE
Enterprise AI deployments are fragmenting away from standardized cloud infrastructure. Financial services AI, manufacturing AI, and healthcare AI require different compute, storage, and networking configurations. Regulatory constraints, latency requirements, and data residency rules vary by sector. This creates an opening for specialized infrastructure vendors. Hyperscalers must either build vertical-specific offerings or lose market share to competitors who understand sector constraints. Purchasing decisions and partner ecosystems are already shifting as a result.