Datadog has added GPU monitoring to its observability stack, giving AI-hungry organizations more insight into exactly what's happening on their most expensive silicon. AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition tested: Gratuitous overkill with a price to match READ MORE The observability vendor says GPU instances now make up 14 percent of cloud compute costs as companies clamber on the AI bandwagon, and that GPU spend will take up an even bigger proportion of cloud compute spend in the future. Earlier this month, IDC said : "Worldwide spending on artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure reached $89.9 billion in Q4 2025" up 62 percent on the year. And accelerated compute – mainly GPUs – is the "structural backbone" of this. But there's plenty of debate over what value – if any – companies are deriving from their massive AI investments. Datadog is not getting into that bearpit.…