Public Sector's AI Ambitions Outrun Its Infrastructure | The Forecast by Nutanix
At the Riverside County Children and Families Commission in Southern California, about a dozen caseworkers have spent recent months testing an AI agent that fills out benefit applications for them. If Riverside County is anything like most other public sector organizations, it will find a broad range of hurdles standing in the way of wider AI adoption. While most public sector organizations are racing down the AI superhighway, 73% admit their on-premises infrastructure is not fully ready to support modern AI workloads, according to the 2026 Public Sector Enterprise Cloud Index (ECI) report, which is a part of the broader 2026 ECI report from Nutanix.