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Apr 15, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Meta’s Tokenmaxxing Craze: One Engineer’s 281 B Monthly Token Burn

An internal Meta dashboard called Claudeonomics revealed that over 85,000 employees consumed more than 60 trillion AI tokens in a month, with the top user burning 281 billion tokens—costing over $1.4 million—highlighting a new “Tokenmaxxing” arms race and exposing the shortcomings of using token volume as a productivity metric.