AI ambitions at risk: 79% of Indian IT leaders say poor infrastructure is stalling AI growth

Nearly eight out of 10 (79%) of Indian IT leaders say a lack of real-time data infrastructure is stalling their efforts to scale AI, according to a new 2026 Data Streaming Report from Confluent. The report, which surveyed 4,625 IT leaders across 14 countries, including 650 respondents from India, examines the challenges that enterprises are facing when scaling AI, and why they may need to focus more on fixing the infrastructure AI initiatives rely on rather than simply increasing investment in A