A warehouse credit spike is easy to explain. An AI bill isn't.
One Snowflake Cortex Agent™ can execute a chain of reasoning steps across multiple data sets. A single prompt can trigger thousands of tokens. And unlike traditional infrastructure, many AI workloads are exploratory by design.
That's why FinOps teams are facing a new challenge: governing systems whose costs are often as dynamic as their outputs.They’re being forced to solve two problems at once:
Use AI to improve FinOps
Govern AI spending itself
