#33 - The Real Cost of Data

Somewhere right now, a server is running a job that nobody remembers asking for. It spun up months ago, for a project that shipped, or maybe one that never did, and it has been quietly humming along ever since. Every hour, it costs a little. Nobody sees it. Nobody turns it off. Because turning things off was never the exciting part. We did not fall in love with data because of the meter. We fell in love with the build. That moment an idea becomes a pipeline, a model, a dashboard that makes the whole room go...