How FinOps Reduces Cloud and GPU Spend for AI-Driven Companies

Introduction At some point in an AI company's growth, the GPU bill stops making sense, and we are looking at a cluster running at 3 am for a model that never shipped. That's the bill that eventually lands on someone's desk, and the first instinct is a cleanup to identify waste and kill orphaned resources. It worked when cloud spend drifted slowly enough for a monthly review to catch up, but by 2025, AI infrastructure spending grew 166% year over year. The job was run, and the bill for it would a