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Glossary entry

Chargeback

A mechanism for allocating and billing technology cost directly to the business unit, service owner, or consumer responsible for demand.

Why it matters

Chargeback matters because AI demand can scale quickly and expensively, and formal cost assignment can create stronger accountability for who is consuming shared capability and why.

Chargeback is harder than showback in AI because shared platform costs, experimentation, and enterprise capability investment do not always map neatly to one business owner from the beginning.