{
    "statement": "of cloud spend is wasted, by respondents' own estimate, the first rise in five years as AI workloads grow (vendor survey)",
    "value_display": "29%",
    "value_numeric": 29,
    "unit": "%",
    "data_label": "Winter 2025",
    "data_period_end": "2025-12-31",
    "region": "Global",
    "size": "all",
    "source": {
        "name": "State of the Cloud Report",
        "publisher": "Flexera",
        "type": "vendor",
        "url": "https://www.flexera.com/"
    },
    "source_url": "https://www.flexera.com/about-us/press-center/flexera-finds-cloud-value-is-rising-while-ai-waste-grows",
    "source_quote": "Alongside this shift, the report shows cloud-based AI workloads are surging, causing an increase in wasted cloud spend (29%) for the first time in five years.",
    "verification_note": "Read on flexera.com press release, 18 Mar 2026. Vendor survey; waste is respondents' own estimate. Fieldwork season not on the release; period end approximate.",
    "verified_at": "2026-10-23T00:00:00+00:00",
    "margin_of_error": null,
    "dont_know": null,
    "data_table": null,
    "revisions": [],
    "page_url": "https://digitaltreed.com/statistics/saas/cloud-spend-wasted-estimate",
    "csv_url": "https://digitaltreed.com/statistics/saas/cloud-spend-wasted-estimate.csv"
}