OpenAI Projects $280B Cash Burn Through 2030 Amid AI Infrastructure Expansion

In the unfolding story of artificial intelligence, OpenAI has offered a rare and striking confession: building the future costs nearly $280 billion by 2030, a figure that reveals how thoroughly the race for machine intelligence has become a contest of capital as much as ingenuity. Reported by the Financial Times, the projection captures a company betting that dominance in AI is won not by restraint but by the willingness to spend at a scale few institutions in history have attempted. It is a wager that binds the company's fate to the patience of investors and the growth of markets that do not