AI vendors have found someone to pay their infrastructure bills: You

The Register · 6 hours ago

Software vendors including Anthropic, OpenAI, GitHub, and Microsoft are shifting from flat-rate subscriptions to usage-based billing models to pass AI infrastructure costs to customers. A Forrester survey of 2,600 decision-makers found that 80 percent expect data and software budgets to rise in 2027, with Bain & Company estimating AI datacenter build costs will reach $2 trillion by 2030. Organizations will need to adopt new financial operations practices with cost controls like model routing and semantic caching to manage unpredictable token-based AI expenses.