Dell and Intel weigh the costs of enterprise AI scalability

Dell and Intel weigh the costs of enterprise AI scalability

Enterprise AI scalability is running into a hard budget wall for some customers. As agentic workloads multiply, cloud token bills are consuming allocations faster than planned, prompting companies to rethink where inference should run.

That cost pressure is reshaping enterprise AI deployment strategy, with on-premises infrastructure and open-weight models moving back into the conversation alongside frontier models in the cloud. Some customers are quickly exhausting token budgets, according to Helen…