OpenAI expects to burn through almost $280B by 2030, FT reports
vertigoruntime · hn · 2026-09-19
Citing the Financial Times, Reuters reports that OpenAI expects to burn through nearly $280 billion by 2030. The figure underscores the massive scale of its spending on compute, data centers, and frontier model R&D, and feeds ongoing market debate about its funding needs and path to commercial sustainability.
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