Colleges face simultaneous infrastructure and curricular challenges as AI becomes central to campus strategies. IT leaders are wrestling with storage, compute and cost constraints — from multiyear cloud contracts to the need for specialized high‑performance compute and scalable storage for model training — while academic leaders confront rapidly rising student demand for AI coursework and literacy. Practical guidance circulated to campus IT teams advises steps to optimize storage, rework procurement and align cloud strategies to AI workloads. Student surveys show demand outpaces supply: fewer than one‑third of students know their institution offers AI courses and under 20% report taking one, despite over 90% saying AI skills should be core to their curriculum. Institutions must reconcile heavy infrastructure bills with faculty development and curriculum redesign if they hope to deliver meaningful AI programs at scale.