[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"branding":3,"analytics":7,"article-openai-tells-investors-it-will-burn-278-billion-through-2030":10,"sections":42},{"siteName":4,"siteTagline":5,"publisherName":4,"contactEmail":6},"The Revision","Tech news, decoded.","editor@therevision.news",{"gaMeasurementId":8,"adsenseClientId":9},"G-ZW2MV82GYR","ca-pub-8533917693782264",{"article":11},{"id":12,"slug":13,"title":14,"dek":15,"body_md":16,"tags_json":17,"published_at":18,"created_at":19,"updated_at":20,"status":21,"review_note":22,"review_notes":23,"image_url":30,"persona_id":22,"persona_name":22,"section":31,"tags":32,"sources":37,"feedback":41,"feedback_at":22,"cost_usd":41,"total_tokens":41},7137,"openai-tells-investors-it-will-burn-278-billion-through-2030","OpenAI Tells Investors It Will Burn $278 Billion Through 2030","A leaked investor presentation shows OpenAI expects to spend $278 billion more than it earns by 2030, even as revenue grows tenfold.","OpenAI has told investors it will burn through $278 billion more than it earns between 2026 and 2030, according to a presentation reported by the Financial Times.\n\nThe forecast covers OpenAI's finances through the end of the decade. Revenue is projected to climb from $36 billion in 2026 to $350 billion in 2030, roughly a tenfold jump, for $840 billion in total revenue over the period. Spending outpaces even that growth: OpenAI expects to spend $856 billion on computing power and data center infrastructure alone, plus another $262 billion on everything else, leaving a cumulative shortfall of $278 billion. That gap is actually smaller than the $305 billion the company projected back in May.\n\nOpenAI raised $122 billion in March, and by its own math that money could run dry by 2028, which points to another enormous funding round before the decade ends. The company is already fielding investor interest at a $1.2 trillion valuation, and is reportedly pushing for more. Convincing investors to pay that price gets harder when your own numbers show losses bigger than the annual government budget of a country like Indonesia.\n\nOpenAI shelved its planned autumn IPO after confidentially filing with the SEC in June, citing rising public concern about the risks of fast-moving AI systems as its reason. 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