# How a 4-Hour Overnight Fine-Tune for My Boyfriend Became a £11,550 Google Cloud Bill – and What I Learned

**URL:** <https://discuss.ai.google.dev/t/how-a-4-hour-overnight-fine-tune-for-my-boyfriend-became-a-11-550-google-cloud-bill-and-what-i-learned/88535>\
**Category:** Gemini API\
**Tags:** vertexai, fine-tuning\
**Created:** [June 12, 2025, 8:24am UTC](https://discuss.ai.google.dev/t/how-a-4-hour-overnight-fine-tune-for-my-boyfriend-became-a-11-550-google-cloud-bill-and-what-i-learned/88535 "2025-06-12T08:24:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lucy](https://d1dlmcr85iqnpo.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/discuss.ai.google.dev/lucy/32/23104_2.png) [@Lucy](https://discuss.ai.google.dev/u/Lucy)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2025, 6:44pm UTC](https://discuss.ai.google.dev/t/how-a-4-hour-overnight-fine-tune-for-my-boyfriend-became-a-11-550-google-cloud-bill-and-what-i-learned/88535/3 "2025-06-12T18:44:09Z")

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This is SUCH a good story. I cannot believe Google will hold you to it. Have you hit local/ national papers? If you’re comfy on a mic it would make a good podcast interview too!! I’m co-promoting via my blog. If you want to chat - I’ll interview you! I am UK based, but lacking audience. Ha Ha. “_Modified by moderator_”

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