Las VegasUpdated: May 19, 2026 02:57 AM IST Dell CEO Michael Dell emphasised that how traditional enterprises are key to building AI infrastructure. ( CEO Michael Dell announced on Monday at Dell Technologies World 2026 in Las Vegas that the company added 1,000 new customers since February for its line of AI servers powered by NVIDIA’s GPUs, underscoring the surging demand for infrastructure designed for artificial intelligence. “For too long, the AI conversation has been trapped inside the screen. The real story begins now. AI is moving into hospitals, into factories, schools, energy grids, laboratories, cities, homes, and yes, even into work solving problems at the scale of humanity,” Dell Technologies CEO Michael Dell said during the company’s annual event in Las Vegas.The Round Rock-based computer maker and one of the world’s largest infrastructure companies, said demand for computing power remains strong. As the development of artificial intelligence data centers accelerates, the company is witnessing a major shift among traditional large enterprises to move from casual cloud-based AI experimentation to building their own dedicated AI infrastructure. Jensen Huang, President and CEO of Nvidia and Dell CEO Michael Dell at the Dell Technologies World 2026 conference in Las Vegas. ( The announcements included partnerships with Google and SpaceX, aimed at bringing AI models directly into enterprises’ internal networks, marking a shift in computing control away from leading cloud service providers such as Amazon and Microsoft. “For organizations, AI is no longer just a feature; it is becoming the operating model for the modern enterprise,” Michael Dell said. “Abundant intelligence is here. It’s not coming. It’s already here. Intelligence itself is becoming infrastructure.” Dell also showcased how pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly and Company is using Dell AI servers for drug discovery. Meanwhile, industrial conglomerate Honeywell and South Korea’s Samsung Electronics are applying the AI technology to use cases such as building AI-optimised semiconductor fabrication plants. Over the last few years, as AI has gained momentum among enterprises, Dell Technologies’s server and networking business has grown exponentially. With large language models are evolving into more multimodal and multi-agent systems, demand for AI processing power and capacity has remained strong. Dell’s AI servers are powered by Nvidia’s Blackwell Ultra chips. The company then sells these systems to customers such as cloud service provider CoreWeave and xAI, Elon Musk’s AI startup.The company expects AI server revenue to grow 103 per cent to about $50 billion in fiscal 2027.Story continues below this ad During an hour-long keynote, Michael Dell unveiled several new products and said the company is backing open-source partners by offering more options to enterprises looking to deploy AI at scale. ( The company sells less to large cloud providers – typically called hyperscalers which have been the biggest spenders on Nvidia’s GPUs. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang also attended the first day of the Dell Technologies World 2026, currently being held at the Venetian Convention Center in Las Vegas. The four-day conference revolves around server, storage, networking, security, and edge computing The core theme
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