The landscape of geospatial data is shifting, with native support for spatial data types now available in Apache Iceberg and Parquet, marking a major turning point. This shift enables spatial data to be stored once, accessed from anywhere, and optimized without vendor lock-in, leading to lower storage and compute costs, better governance, and faster insights. CARTO has played a key role in this shift, contributing to the development of GeoParquet and Iceberg's geospatial capabilities and helping major engines like BigQuery and Snowflake adopt these standards. The momentum is accelerating, with Google and Databricks also working towards supporting native geospatial types on Iceberg, and CARTO continuing to standardize new formats such as raster, mobility, and 3D data.