As companies respond to rising cloud costs and concerns over data sovereignty by adjusting where AI computing is done, business PCs are drawing attention as endpoints for local inference. Dell Technologies said the spread of agentic AI is changing the role and criteria for AI PCs. Dell cited token costs as a key driver, saying agentic workflows can quickly raise cloud API costs. Executive Rob Bruckner said inference often does not require top-tier performance and AI PCs can help firms control token budgets.

Dell Technologies set out its corporate AI infrastructure strategy at Dell Technologies World 2026 in Las Vegas, targeting what it called the tokenomics era. It said surging token use and data processing driven by agentic AI require full-stack infrastructure spanning computing, networking, storage and security. Executives highlighted workload placement across PCs, data centres and cloud, and an Nvidia-linked “AI Factory” portfolio. Dell also introduced new storage and cyber resilience products and stressed distributed private infrastructure.