AI token economics is creating a data normalization crisis across the technology stack as enterprises scramble to apply consistent financial controls to graphics processing unit clusters, AI factories and token-based consumption that existing cloud billing frameworks were never designed to handle.As the FinOps Foundation Project, a Series of LF Projects LLC, community gathers in San Diego for FinOps X 2026, attention is turning to FOCUS — the FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification — and whether the open standard can extend its multicloud billing common language to cover a new generation of AI spending