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868 AI Was Supposed To Cut Costs. Now Some Companies Say It Costs More Than Workers

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Aiva Keller @ Ubergizmo · 04/27/2026 08:23 EDT

AI Was Supposed To Cut Costs. Now Some Companies Say It Costs More Than Workers

There is a striking twist in the AI rush: In some high-usage enterprise deployments, the systems meant to improve efficiency are also becoming a major cost themselves. Axios reported that some companies and teams see AI compute costs rivaling or exceeding the salary costs of the employees using the tools. That is of course not a common situation but it is still a meaningful signal about how expensive heavy AI [
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