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The IT market growth trend in Finland is forecast to accelerate in 2025 as economic conditions strengthen and the AI investment cycle is boosted by shipments of Nvidia Blackwell hardware. There is a strong medium-term outlook for IT market growth because of advances in AI that will deepen the reach of digital technologies in economic activity, and this means that IT market growth is forecast to outpace GDP in each year of the forecast to 2028. There is additional upside if AI can increase the capacity and lower costs of digital projects, which would potentially accelerate digital transformation and have a positive impact on economic productivity growth. The Russia-Ukraine war continues to be a source of downside risk, but we expect IT investment to be relatively resilient to moderate headwinds because of the strategic importance of AI-related innovation.