{"id":994070,"date":"2026-02-20T11:39:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T06:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=994070"},"modified":"2026-02-20T11:39:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T06:09:16","slug":"whos-really-paying-for-your-daily-free-chatgpt-use-openais-staggering-costs-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/20\/whos-really-paying-for-your-daily-free-chatgpt-use-openais-staggering-costs-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Who\u2019s really paying for your daily free ChatGPT use? OpenAI\u2019s staggering costs revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019ve ever typed \u201cplease\u201d or \u201cthank you\u201d into ChatGPT, you may have contributed, very marginally, to OpenAI\u2019s electricity bill. Earlier this year, a social media user asked how much money the company had \u201clost in electricity costs\u201d from users being polite. OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman replied that it amounted to \u201ctens of millions of dollars well spent,\u201d adding: \u201cYou never know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was partly a joke. But it also pointed to a serious question: what does it actually cost to run one of the most widely used AI systems in the world, and how is OpenAI planning to pay for it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019ve ever typed \u201cplease\u201d or \u201cthank you\u201d into ChatGPT, you may have contributed, very marginally, to OpenAI\u2019s electricity bill. Earlier this year, a social media user asked how much money the company had \u201clost in electricity costs\u201d from users being polite. OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman replied that it amounted to \u201ctens of millions of dollars well spent,\u201d adding: \u201cYou never know.\u201d It was partly a joke. But it also pointed to a serious question: what does it actually cost to run one of the most widely used AI systems in the world, and how is OpenAI planning to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-994070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=994070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}