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Agentic AI set to boost global infrastructure productivity: new EY report
Research - MAY 8, 2026

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Agentic AI set to boost global infrastructure productivity: new EY report

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Despite investment in recent years, the global infrastructure sector faces a significant funding gap of $64 trillion globally. World governments and the private sector will need to invest close to $140 trillion between now and 2050 to address this shortfall, keep up with ever-shifting global conditions and provide for the needs of the world’s population. A considerable uplift in productivity is required.

Infrastructure productivity is constrained not by a lack of technology, but by fragmented systems, data and stakeholders that limit effective coordination.

The report, The intelligence layer: how agentic AI can connect the infrastructure industry, explores how governments and organizations can embed agentic artificial intelligence (AI) project, program and portfolio structures to improve coordination between segmented, yet highly interdependent, data sources. While current delivery models require manual coordination and periodic reporting, agentic AI introdu

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