GitHub Copilot is costing Microsoft a lot of money

AI ain't cheap. Doing it properly requires a crap tonne of hardware drawing an even stinkier crap tonne of power to drive it. Those costs aren't being covered by philanthropists either and now the big boys of tech-town are starting to realise just how much it's hitting their bottom line. One of the largest hit is Microsoft who partnered with OpenAI to develop their GitHub copilot product. The US$10/month feature lets devs like me continuously poll the AI cloud for the next piece of code and saves approximately 75% of any dev's real job – searching for an answer on Stack Overflow. Turns out though for every user paying 10 bucks it's costing Microsoft about $30/month to pay for all their queries. On average they're losing US$20/m for every Github Copilot subscription out there. In some extreme cases sources have claimed them to be loosing as much as US$80/m per user! Considering they've bragged about 1.5m people using Copilot that's a lot of cheddar and goes a long way to explaining why their new Office Copilot subscription is starting at US$30/m!