A CFO reviews the quarterly cloud bill. 34% over budget. Again. She asks who is responsible. Nobody is lying. Nobody is responsible.

$44.5B in projected cloud waste for 2026. Only 30% can attribute costs to teams. 49% of IT leaders believe >25% is wasted.

New essay applies Hardin’s tragedy of the commons to cloud infrastructure. Why FinOps addresses symptoms. Why does a chargeback fail? What Ostrom’s Nobel Prize research says actually works.

https://simplicityfirstphilosophy.substack.com/p/the-tragedy-of-the-cloud-commons