Gartner sized the AI-optimized IaaS market at $42.2 billion for 2026, up 96.4% from $21.5 billion in 2025.
Inside that number, inference accounts for $23 billion against $19 billion for training, and inference share climbs to 59% in 2027.
The industry spent three years building for training and is now spending on serving.
Inference is continuous, latency-sensitive, and geographically distributed by nature.
Aethir's network was designed around exactly those three properties.