Tomasz Tunguz (Theory Ventures) · 2026-03-13
· 83d
AI Infrastructure Shortage: Planning for Constrained Inference Until 2028
AI infrastructure faces severe capacity constraints across GPUs, power, data centers, and memory through 2028, with major cloud providers reporting unprecedented demand. As inference capacity becomes rationed, organizations must shift strategies by increasing prices, adopting open-source models, and optimizing workloads rather than universally deploying frontier AI models.
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Inference Capacity Shortage Timeline
6quarters
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Until relief in AI infrastructure capacity expected
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