{"id":9140,"date":"2026-03-04T13:30:03","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T17:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hostingdiscussion.com\/news\/?p=9140"},"modified":"2026-03-04T08:38:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T12:38:19","slug":"ai-budgets-shift-to-cloud-storage-as-fee-pressures-persist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hostingdiscussion.com\/news\/ai-budgets-shift-to-cloud-storage-as-fee-pressures-persist\/","title":{"rendered":"AI budgets shift to cloud storage as fee pressures persist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">New findings from the <a href=\"https:\/\/wasabi.com\/company\/newsroom\/press-releases\/only-one-third-of-ai-projects-deliver-positive-roi-yet-companies-continue-to-invest-in-ai-infrastructure-according-to-the-2026-wasabi-global-cloud-storage-index\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">2026 Wasabi Global Cloud Storage Index<\/a> show enterprises directing most AI budgets toward data, storage, and compute rather than software. Yet nearly half report cloud storage budget overruns, often tied to complex fee structures. Data quality and storage management now rank above compute as AI deployment hurdles, underscoring the growing operational weight of cloud object storage in enterprise <a href=\"https:\/\/hostingdiscussion.com\/news\/ai-is-turning-cloud-spending-into-daily-finance-problem\/\">AI strategies<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New findings from the 2026 Wasabi Global Cloud Storage Index show enterprises directing most AI budgets toward data, storage, and compute rather than software. Yet nearly half report cloud storage budget overruns, often tied to complex fee structures. 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