Financial Exposure in the Cloud: Persistent Gemini API Caching Flaw Incurs Severe Billing Anomalies

The report describes a persistent Gemini API backend caching defect that continuously accumulates ~200M tokens per hour, producing significant automated billing (~$200/hour and >$30,000/month) which developers cannot purge; support ticketing was delayed and the issue was publicly escalated on social media while awaiting Google engineering remediation.