Nearly 90% of companies cut or redesigned AI projects as running costs mount

A Cloudera survey of 1,500 IT leaders found that 99% have acted on rising or volatile AI costs: 45% moved workloads to another cloud, private or on-premises environment, and 24% paused or cancelled AI use cases. Only 19% continuously monitor token and inference spending.

• 99% of respondents took action over rising or volatile AI costs
• 45% moved workloads to another cloud, private or on-premises environment
• 24% paused or cancelled AI projects; 98% pulled back a deployment at least once
• Only 19% continuously track token and inference spending