Originally published on AI Tech Connect.
What a control plane is, and what it is not The State of FinOps 2026 report, published by the FinOps Foundation in February 2026 on responses from 1,192 practitioners representing more than $83 billion in annual cloud spend, contains one number that reframes the whole discipline: 98% of respondents now manage AI spend, up from 31% two years earlier. That is not gradual adoption, it is a category appearing from nothing. The same survey reports that 73% of AI projects still overrun their budget, and that the single most-requested capability among practitioners is granular monitoring of AI spend broken down by tokens, LLM requests and GPU utilisation. Read those three findings together and the picture is unambiguous: almost everyone is now responsible for this cost, most of them cannot hold…
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