More than half of respondents said their organization lacks a dedicated owner for AI costs, leaving responsibility diffused across engineering, platform and FinOps teams. Dive Insight:Tech leaders are working hard to rein in runaway AI spending as adoption spreads across the organization. Alongside rising spending, Harness’ report found businesses are getting stumped by how AI costs differ from traditional IT spending. Since they look like ordinary software licenses rather than infrastructure spend, they are difficult to track. “The visibility problem, the ownership problem, the forecasting problem show up whether you are spending $300K a month or $3M.”