AI Costs Are Cloud Costs Now: Why FinOps Is the New Playbook for AI Spend

CFOs Are Coming For The Enterprise AI Budget

OpenAI, Microsoft, and AWS are deploying cost governance tools to address CFO demands for spending control and ROI tracking, mirroring cloud computing's maturation. With 50% of enterprise AI projects abandoned for cost overruns, even Amazon and Uber are capping spending; IT teams must now justify adoption through cost-per-outcome metrics.