AI Costs Are Cloud Costs Now: Why FinOps Is the New Playbook for AI Spend (opens in new tab)

Something quietly changed inside finance dashboards over the last eighteen months. The line item for AI tools used to be small and predictable. Now it sits right next to the cloud bill, growing at a pace nobody fully forecasted, and looking suspiciously similar to how AWS looked back in 2015. This is not a coincidence. AI coding assistants, model APIs, and agent platforms all bill on usage. They are variable. They are skewed by power users. And most teams have almost no visibility into who is...