Enterprise AI in Numbers · Adoption and spend
Share of large EU enterprises using AI
55.0%
55.0% as of 2025, according to Eurostat, ICT usage in enterprises, up from 41.2% in 2024. Share of large enterprises that use at least one AI technology, from Eurostat's survey on ICT usage in enterprises, carried out in the first half of each year.
What it means for leaders
Among large European enterprises, using AI is now the majority position. A large organization without AI in production is behind its peers, not waiting for the market.
What would change the reading: Whether the next survey year holds above half of large enterprises.
The trend
Every reading
Definition and method
- What it measures
- Share of large enterprises that use at least one AI technology, from Eurostat's survey on ICT usage in enterprises, carried out in the first half of each year.
- Population
- Enterprises with 250 or more employees in the 27 EU countries, excluding the financial sector
- Updated
- Annual
- Source
- Eurostat, ICT usage in enterprises · CC BY 4.0
Caveats
- The survey excludes the financial sector.
- The list of AI technologies asked about changes between survey years.
Cite this
Enterprise AI in Numbers, "Share of large EU enterprises using AI", https://lucianoayres.com/ai-brief/data/eu-large-enterprise-ai-use/, retrieved October 25, 2026. Data: Eurostat, ICT usage in enterprises.