I mean, I can imagine it’s a very real expense.
Not sure what is the difference between Meta and Microsoft in term of employee size, but if Meta is burning 300 000 000$ monthly on tokens (whichis a number reported by their internal tracking tool that leaked assuming 5$ per 1M tokens), then it’s not cheap :D
In a 30-day period, total employee usage on the dashboard exceeded 60 trillion tokens, and the highest-ranked individual user averaged 281 billion tokens. Using the least expensive version of Claude Opus 4.6, which costs $5 for every million tokens, that one user alone could have cost Meta more than $1.4 million.
https://fortune.com/2026/04/09/meta-killed-employee-ai-token-dashboard/
Can you imagine working at Meta and just building a token burning perpetual motion machine to pump your token usage so it looks like you’re the AI god, and costing them $1M/mo?
Malicious compliance at it’s finest. Fuck Meta.
Quoting a hacker news comment:
ndiddy: This is an AI generated summary of a blog post (https://www.thelowdownblog.com/2026/05/microsoft-cancels-int…) which is a summary of an AI generated article (https://blazetrends.com/microsoft-cancels-claude-code-pilot-…) which is a summary of another AI generated article (https://www.themodelwire.com/article/microsoft-starts-cancel…) which is a summary of an article from The Verge (https://www.theverge.com/tech/930447/microsoft-claude-code-d…). I guess it would be better to link the Verge article instead.
