FinOps for AI: How We Get AI Costs Under Control (opens in new tab)

One example caused a stir across the industry: an AI consultant told the news outlet Axios that one of their clients burned through roughly half a billion dollars in a single month because no usage limits had been set on the employees’ AI licenses. The case sounds extreme, and at that scale it is the exception. The underlying pattern is not. On a smaller scale, many organizations are experiencing it right now: a bill jumps from a few hundred to several thousand euros a month, without any alar...