The world will invest over $1 trillion in AI to ensure prosperity of nations and industries, says Michael Dell

Michael Dell speaking at Dell Tech World 2025 in Las Vegas (Courtesy: Dell Technologies)

Michael Dell, founder and CEO of Dell Technologies, is betting big on artificial intelligence (AI) for the technology giant as well as the world’s future, calling it the operating system of the world that will add $15 trillion to the global economy by 2030.

Speaking at the company’s flagship event, Dell Tech World 2025 in Las Vegas, Dell said, “We will soon see the world invest more than a trillion dollars in AI to ensure the prosperity of nations and industries alike. That is a well-justified investment, given that the knowledge economy drives more than half of global GDP, and AI is the operating system that will power the world forward. This will add an estimated $15 trillion to the global economy by 2030. But for AI to reach its economic potential, adoption has to grow.”

“Our job at Dell Technologies is to make AI more accessible for all of you. 85 percent of enterprises plan to move generative AI workloads on-premises in the next 24 months,” he added.

Last year, the company launched the Dell AI Factory in collaboration with chipmaker Nvidia. AI Factory is a comprehensive AI solution offering a range of services, solutions, and infrastructure, including AI-ready hardware, software, and expert support, to manage the entire AI lifecycle, from data preparation to model deployment.

Dell shared that over the past year, AI Factory has added over 3,000 customers enabling nearly 60 percent cost saving for on-premise cloud as compared to the public cloud. Overall, the AI solution has been driving RoI (return on investments) and productivity gains of 20-40 percent as compared to earlier cases.

“Together with partners like Microsoft, Hugging Face, Red Hat, Cohere, Meta, the Llama Stack, and the Llama 4 models, Google bringing Gemini on-prem, ServiceNow, Mistral, and many more, we're developing AI for the enterprise, delivering end-to-end solutions with the right infrastructure at the right scale for every use case across every industry,” Dell said.

Dell Technologies is now expanding on its partnership with NVIDIA 2.0, with a slew of improvements and upgrades in its offerings.

“We are introducing the next generation of AI-optimized servers, the Dell PowerEdge XE9780L and 9785L. Each holds eight B300 accelerators with four times faster training of LLMs and 11 times more brain-fencing and direct-to-chip computing, supporting 256 GPUs in a single round, Dell said.

He added that Dell PowerEdge servers also support the latest NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000s. Purpose-built for physical and agentic AI like robotics and digital twins with eight GPUs in a four-unit chassis.

While this does generate more heat, Dell is coming up with newer power-cooled, enclosed rear door heat exchanger, that the company claims can save up to 60 percent in energy cooling costs, enabling denser AI environments.

In its upgraded avatar, the Dell AI Factory is seeing a 100X increase in tokens per second for distributed AI inferencing.

“AI factories are the infrastructure of modern industry, generating intelligence to power work across healthcare, finance and manufacturing. With Dell Technologies, we’re offering the broadest line of Blackwell AI systems to serve AI factories in clouds, enterprises and at the edge,” Jensen Huang, founder and chief executive officer, NVIDIA said in a statement.