By By David Ramel08/12/2026
Publication Date: 2026-08-12 00:00:00
Global Survey: 66% Repatriated AI Workloads From Public Cloud
Enterprise AI adoption is prompting organizations to reconsider where workloads run and where data resides, with two-thirds of respondents in a new Cloudera survey reporting that they have moved AI workloads away from public cloud environments and back to private cloud or on-premises infrastructure.
Cloudera released the survey Aug. 11 under the title “The Great AI Re-Architecture.” The research, fielded by Wakefield Research, covered 1,500 enterprise architects, cloud infrastructure leads and data architects in nine markets across the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), and Asia-Pacific (APAC).
The findings show that the shift is not simply a move away from public cloud. Respondents expect to invest across multiple environments: 29 percent anticipate greater cloud spending over the next two years, 25 percent plan to place more emphasis on a hybrid-first approach, 24 percent expect greater on-premises spending and 22 percent expect greater edge spending.
Cloudera describes the trend as a broader redesign of enterprise data architecture around AI rather than a conventional infrastructure refresh. The survey report focuses on data placement, governance, cost, performance and workload…