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ASIA’ S AI AMBITIONS HAMPERED BY INFRASTRUCTURE AND TALENT GAPS
New research from ST Telemedia Global Data Centres shows Singapore is leading the region in maturity but faces critical scaling bottlenecks as well as a widening AI readiness gap.
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Commissioned by STT GDC with research partner, Ecosystm, the study surveyed more than 600 enterprise and digital-native leaders across nine Asian markets: India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand and Vietnam.
ST Telemedia Global Data Centres( STT GDC), one of the world’ s fastest-growing data centre colocation service providers headquartered in Singapore, has revealed findings of a new regional research study, Mind the Gap: Bridging the AI Infrastructure Readiness Divide, examining how organisations across Asia are progressing from AI ambition to execution.
High adoption, limited readiness across Asia
The report reveals that AI ambition across Asia is high, with nearly 90 % of organisations having embarked on their AI journeys. However, a significant 71 % remain in the‘ Builder’ stage of maturity, where initial AI pilots struggle to scale into production environments capable of delivering consistent and measurable return on investment( ROI). In contrast, only 17 %
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