Retired IT Emerges as New Source of Funding for the AI Era
Iron Mountain, Monday, October 12th, 2026
Iron Mountain research finds 17% of organizations already use reclaimed IT spending as a source of AI funding.
Iron Mountain published research in its report The Information Supercycle: Aligning Data, Infrastructure and Capital for AI Scale, finding that comprehensive IT asset lifecycle management can recover value from decommissioned technology and reinvest it in next-generation infrastructure as refresh cycles accelerate.
Seventeen percent of organizations already use reclaimed IT spending as a source of AI funding.
Iron Mountain frames ALM as a potential self-funding mechanism for AI.