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The hyperscaler that turned 'you only pay for what you use' into a governance problem. GCP's billing model was built for elastic infrastructure, not for the runaway, prompt-driven cost spikes generative AI now produces — which is why Google is retrofitting hard spend controls onto a platform that spent a decade optimizing for pure usage-based billing.

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Spend Caps: Google Finally Ships the Killswitch Enterprises Were Hand-Rolling

Google Cloud's new Spend Caps let you pause a service before the bill lands, not after. It is a real fix for a real problem — and its narrow, single-project scope tells you exactly whose problem Google solved first.