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Enterprise AI cloud budgets are running 30 to 50 percent over forecast — and the cause isn’t vendor pricing, it’s workload misplacement. This guide delivers the 5-step hybrid cloud AI workload placement framework that matches every workload type to the right environment, with real 2026 cost benchmarks showing a 95% compute cost differential between AWS on-demand and on-prem GPU infrastructure. CTOs, VPs of Engineering, and ML infrastructure leads will find the TCO decision matrix, compliance filter, and 14-question pre-deployment checklist built for the next budget cycle.