Everything on Infrastructure Economics & Procurement

Hardware vendors are shifting to revenue-sharing and capacity buyback models, effectively subsidizing cloud infrastructure while locking partners into proprietary ecosystems. Procurement teams must negotiate flexible interoperability clauses to prevent irreversible vendor lock-in.

Impact: Optimizes total cost of ownership and maintains strategic flexibility amid concentrated compute market dynamics.

— from Strategic AI Shifts: Geopolitics, Infrastructure, and Enterprise Optimization · KI-Update – ein heise-Podcast· Jul 08, 2026