# Enterprises are sweating legacy IT assets as AI investment grows

DevFeed: [Enterprises are sweating legacy IT assets as AI investment grows](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/enterprises-are-sweating-legacy-it-assets-as-ai-investment-grows-31542.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.theregister.com/systems/2026/09/16/enterprises-are-sweating-legacy-it-assets-as-ai-investment-grows/5296896>)

Author: Dan Robinson

Published: 2026-09-16T16:15:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [www.theregister.com - Articles](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/www-theregister-com-articles.md>)

Topics: [legacy](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/legacy.md>), [Hardware](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/hardware.md>), [mainframes](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mainframes.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>), [business logic](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/business-logic.md>), [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [artificial-intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/artificial-intelligence.md>), [business-logic](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/business-logic.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [ensono](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ensono.md>), [hardware](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hardware.md>), [it-modernization](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/it-modernization.md>), [legacy](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/legacy.md>), [legacy-systems](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/legacy-systems.md>), [mainframes](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mainframes.md>), [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/systems.md>)

## AI overview

The article examines how enterprises are dealing with legacy IT assets as AI investment grows. It reports that mainframes and other hardware may contain the data and business logic needed to build AI services.

## Source excerpt

Hardware such as mainframes found to hold the data and business logic needed to build those AI services