Bankruptcy after cloud account drained: 'They opened the gates of hell'

A French-Norwegian founder, Daniel Constantin Tabacaru-Jæger, went bankrupt with more than five million kroner in debt after his AI startup, Again AI, was hit by a huge cloud bill from Google. The story was reported by Digi and dated 2 November 2026.

Over a single weekend, Again AI's resource use in Google's cloud rose by 800,000 percent. The bill then arrived, and it marked the beginning of the end for the startup. Tabacaru-Jæger told Digi: "They opened the gates of hell for me!"

Of the debt, more than four million kroner was what the American tech giant wanted to collect. In the end, though, Google never filed its claim with the bankruptcy estate.

The text available here covers only the opening of the report: the sharp surge in usage, the resulting bill, the bankruptcy and the fact that the claim was never lodged. It does not explain what caused the spike in resource use, how Google handled the dispute, or how the founder and the company dealt with the bill in the lead-up to the bankruptcy.

The case shows how quickly usage-based cloud costs can grow for a small AI company, and how a single unexpected invoice can be enough to bring down a startup and leave its founder with a large personal debt burden.