FinOps X day London 2026 - Keynote comments
My notes from the FinOps X day London 2026. In not particular order.
Section
Finops
Connections
2026-03-23 news
OpenAI scrapped a major Texas data centre expansion this week [1]. The stated reason: cost control ahead of a potential IPO. What does that mean for you?
Thoughts of 2026-03-20
AI is pushing AWS towards a $600bn decade-scale ambition while most finance teams still cannot predict cloud spend with confidence. That gap is where AI strategies fail. …
A mature FinOps practice can still be useless to leadership
FinOps maturity is usually measured from inside the FinOps tribe, which means we are often marking our own homework. Maturity alone is of no use to leadership if it does …
Your strategy dies before it reaches engineering
Strategy rarely reaches engineers intact. As decisions are reworked at every level, intent fragments and organisations drift. This model shows how to carry strategy …
2026-03-16 news
💡Thank you for being a paying member. Cloud computing is projected to cross $1 trillion annual spending in 2026 [1]. When electricity and telecommunications reached …
Why FinOps still lives in Excel
FinOps still lives in Excel not because tools are weak, but because the discipline lacks mandatory, GAAP-like standards. Without set in stone standardsthere is not much …
CEO intent to FinOps decisions
FinOps starts with intent. With a CEO saying: “We are going to take this risk.” With executives debating what that really means. And you untangling what it means for your …
Your dashboard is lying (but not the way you think)
Cloud vendors mark cost data as provisional until month-end billing is finalised, yet most FinOps dashboards ignore that and display mid-month numbers as truth. In …
Why shift left makes me uncomfortable
Shift-left is framed as empowerment: show engineers the cost impact and let them decide. But when economic responsibility moves down without strategic intent, budget …