Cockroach Labs Warns AI Agents Strain Infrastructure

Spencer Kimball, CEO of Cockroach Labs, warns that AI agents moving into production will overwhelm enterprise data infrastructure, citing a company survey of 1,125 cloud architects and technology executives that found all expect AI workloads to grow next year and more than 60% forecast growth of 20% or more. The survey reports 83% expect data infrastructure to fail without major upgrades within 24 months, highlighting urgent database modernization needs.
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