Cloud Monitoring Costs $124K a Year. AI Workloads Will Double It.
97% of organizations experienced unexpected monitoring costs last year. The average mid-market observability stack costs $124,000 annually, and AI workloads push those numbers 40 to 200 percent...
Half of All FinOps Teams Now Manage Data Center Costs. A Year Ago It Was 36%.
48% of FinOps teams now manage data center costs, up from 36% last year. The tooling gap is closing, AI inference economics are pushing workloads on-prem, and practitioners need new skills to keep up.
AI Gateways Cut Inference Costs 40%. Most FinOps Teams Haven’t Deployed One.
Enterprise AI budgets grew 483% in two years, with inference consuming 85% of spend. AI gateways cut inference costs 40 to 60% through model routing, semantic caching, and budget enforcement.
Uber Burned Through Its AI Budget in Four Months. Most Enterprises Will Follow.
Uber spent its entire 2026 AI budget in four months on Claude Code. Microsoft canceled licenses. GitHub shifts to usage-based billing June 1. What FinOps teams need to do before the same thing...
Data center electricity demand is nearly doubling by 2028, and cloud providers embed those rising energy costs in every service they sell. Most FinOps teams treat energy as invisible. That is a...
CoreWeave, Lambda, and other neocloud providers offer NVIDIA H100 GPUs at 40 to 85 percent less than AWS, Azure, and GCP. Microsoft committed $60 billion to these providers because its own capacity...
