John-David Lovelock

John-David Lovelock is not a vendor chief executive, a hyperscaler buyer, or a minister setting industrial policy. His influence sits in a quieter operating surface: the forecast language that helps boards, suppliers, investors, and technology buyers decide whether the next wave of IT spending is durable demand, pulled-forward hype, or a cost structure they have to plan around.

Gartner's 2025 AI spending forecast is a dated market-signal event about infrastructure capacity, hardware-heavy spending and the newer 2026 benchmark.