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IDC Survey: AI-Enabled Energy Management Trends, 2026

Bjoern Stengel — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey presents findings from IDC’s 2026 AI and Sustainability Survey of 1,570 enterprise decision-makers worldwide, focused on how organizations are applying artificial intelligence to energy management. Energy efficiency is the fastest-growing ESG AI priority IDC tracks: 29.4% of organizations now name it a top issue addressed through AI, up from 19.3% in IDC’s 2024 AI and Sustainability Survey — a 52% relative increase, more than double the growth rate of any other ESG AI topic IDC tracks. Energy-focused buyers are also IDC’s most transformation- and ROI-driven audience of any ESG AI topic surveyed, and predictive AI is their dominant technology choice by a wide margin (35.4%).

This presentation segments these findings by industry, company size, region, and AI for sustainability maturity stage, surfacing sharply different buyer profiles, budget owners, and barriers beneath the top-line numbers — from construction’s uniquely footprint-conscious buyers to oil and gas’ transformation ambition blocked by a lack of industry-specific solutions. It closes with vendor-facing implications: Capability breadth wins buyer reliance today, but real whitespace exists in vertical-specific solutions, ROI-modeling support, and third-party trust credentials that most vendors aren’t yet providing.

“What’s striking isn’t that energy-efficiency AI investment grew 52% in two years — it’s that the growth is showing up in software and retail as much as construction and utilities. This is no longer a niche, energy-intensive industry story; it’s becoming a mainstream line item, and most vendors’ go-to-market plans haven’t caught up.” — Bjoern Stengel, global sustainability research and practice lead, Sustainable Strategies and Technologies, IDC

Market Analysis Perspective: Worldwide Managed Edge and Content Delivery Services, 2026

Ghassan Abdo — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Analysis Perspective provides insight into the current and future state of the worldwide managed edge and content delivery services market. It includes an overview of the current market landscape, a technology buyer perspective, a market outlook, and IDC's advice for technology suppliers and service providers.

"The managed edge and content delivery services market is at an inflection point with the emergence of edge as a control point for AI inferencing and NaaS as the consumption model for connectivity services." — Ghassan Abdo, research VP, Worldwide Telecom, Managed Edge and Delivery Services, IDC.

Market Forecast: Worldwide Tablet Forecast Update, 2026–2030 — 2Q26

Bryan Ma — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC presentation provides the 2Q26 update to our five-year forecast for the worldwide tablet market.

"Tablets are being hit on multiple fronts, be it memory prices or even threat of substitute products. But the core use cases of media consumption and light productivity help keep the category weathering the storm." — Bryan Ma, vice president, Client Devices, IDC

Market Share: U.S. Laser A3/A4 MFP Shares, 2025

Geoffrey Wilbur, Abhyuday Jampu — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC presentation analyzes the U.S. A3 and A4 laser MFP markets. Economic and business uncertainty, partly because of tariff uncertainty, suppressed demand for print hardware in 2025. As vendors pursue opportunities in this difficult business climate and beyond, success will be determined by the extent to which vendors' product offerings meet current and evolving business needs.

Market Share: Worldwide and U.S. Managed Print and Document Services and Basic Print Services Shares, 2025

Robert Palmer — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC presentation examines the 2025 market shares of the leading vendors in the Managed Print and Document Services and Basic Print Services market.

The contractual print and document services market declined in 2025 as organizations grappled with geopolitical conflict, lingering trade tensions, and tightening financial conditions. As has been the case over the past few years, the market for basic print services (BPS) continues to give ground to MPDS as businesses gain experience with contractual print services and advance in print and document maturity. In 2025, BPS revenue dipped 4%, while MPS revenue was essentially flat year-over-year.

"Balancing print modernization with tightening budgets is one of the toughest calls IT leaders face today, as economic headwinds and geopolitical uncertainty force a harder look at every technology investment. Organizations can no longer justify upgrading print infrastructure for its own sake. The business case hinges on demonstrating measurable cost savings, reducing security risks, meeting security compliance and sustainability objectives, and driving operational efficiency," says Robert Palmer, Research Vice President, Imaging, Printing, and Document Solutions.

Enterprise Quantum Computing Use Cases: From Quantum Opportunities to Enterprise Business Value

Heather West, PhD — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation identifies quantum-relevant use cases across key industries, including manufacturing, finance, energy,healthcare and life sciences, government, telecommunications, and aerospace and defense. For each industry, the presentation examines where quantum computing is being applied or evaluated today, the enterprise use cases showing the greatest potential, and the maturity of current initiatives. It provides enterprises with a framework for distinguishing near-term opportunities from longer-term developments and identifies how organizations should prepare for the continued evolution of hybrid quantum-classical computing.

Market Forecast: Worldwide Datacenter Facilities Power Forecast, 2026–2030

Andrew Buss, Luis Fernandes, Mikhail Jaura — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study provides a forecast for the worldwide datacenter facilities power market and delivers insights into its drivers and inhibitors of growth.

"As we see unprecedent growth of datacenter buildout, two questions arise: where is the energy coming from to support this growth, and how can it be properly managed? Builders and operators of these datacenters will have to bring together governments, grid operators and distributors, vendors that offer best-in-class hardware and software solutions, and even schools to provide much-needed skilled workers for various specialized functions," said Luis Fernandes, senior research manager, IDC Cloud and Datacenters, Enterprise Infrastructure.

Red Hat AI 3.5 Extends AI Governance and Cost Controls Across Hybrid Infrastructure

Matthew Flug — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Red Hat has released Red Hat AI 3.5, an update to its AI portfolio centered on pre-deployment safety verification, resource controls for shared GPU infrastructure, agentic operations, multitenancy, and native observability with token-level cost attribution. The release reflects a change in what buyers expect from AI platforms, as the operational discipline applied to production infrastructure now governs how AI workloads are evaluated, isolated, and managed.

America's Great Corridors of Commerce (AGCC) and the path forward for telco colocationAmerica's Great Corridors of Commerce (AGCC) and the Path Forward for Telco Colocation

Olga Yashkova — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) has launched America's Great Corridors of Commerce (AGCC), the first operational attempt to turn highways and railroads into shared utility corridors, with telecom colocation sitting directly in its path. With DOT set to designate up to five pilot corridors in the program's first year, and a separate mandatory-access bill for railroad crossings advancing in Congress, the rules governing telco access to these corridors are still being written, giving providers a rare window to help shape them.

IDC MarketScape: 中国人工智能就绪的数据存储基础设施2026年厂商评估

Yunxu Yang, William Zhang — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

本次IDC研究聚焦于中国提供AI-RDSI产品或解决方案的厂商，IDC针对入选的技术提供商的解决方案能力以及战略进行评估，主要标准包括产品服务内容与组合、市场化能力和商业化能力三个部分。各维度根据市场情况划分为多个细分标准，并配以不同的权重，从而形成IDC MarketScape综合评分体系。通过IDC分析师针对厂商和最终用户的深入访谈，集中分析并确定各AI-RDSI产品/解决方案提供商在IDC MarketScape中的相对位置，并探讨供应商的特点和战略，总结发展趋势，为CIO们选型AI-RDSI产品/解决方案时提供参考。

“AI负载带来特有挑战，AI训练、推理所需硬件架构区别于传统业务；模型训练存在短时、爆发式高资源消耗特征；海量数据高速传输的网络能力，同样是保障AI工作负载高效运行的关键。同时，支撑AI应用训练与运行的基础设施重要性持续提升，且未来数年基础设施支出将成为AI总投入的主体，因此成本优化至关重要。技术提供商需充分掌握各类新兴技术的能力特性，并搭建一套合理且丰富的架构方案，充分发挥适配人工智能基础设施投资的商业价值，同时协助技术买家优化成本、性能与安全水平，使技术买家能够灵活选用多种AI就绪的数据基础设施部署方式与运营模式。”——杨昀煦，IDC中国企业级存储基础设施研究经理