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Cloud Strategy

Why C-Suite Leaders Struggle With AI Consumption Pricing
ByR M 08/14/202608/14/2026

AI consumption pricing broke the model executives used to govern infrastructure spend. One-third of business leaders — 33%, according to KPMG’s Q2 2026 Global AI Pulse survey of more than 2,145 C-suite and senior executives across 20 countries — cite limited understanding of usage costs as a key deployment challenge for AI agents. It changed…

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AI Infrastructure | Cloud Architecture

Inference Is Becoming the New Steady-State Cost Center
ByR M 05/25/202608/02/2026

Training was a bounded investment event. Inference is an unbounded operational residency problem. That distinction is the one most AI cost conversations refuse to make. The infrastructure budget conversation for AI has moved — not from “cheap” to “expensive,” but from “event” to “permanent.” Training had a finish line. Inference steady state does not. Every…

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