Microsoft employees are supposed to be using AI as much as possible. But wait, not like that!
In internal tracker, one employee who worked in the Customer and Partner Solutions organization stood out from all the rest by admitting they spent an eyebrow-raising $28,000 on AI tools in just 28 days, Gadget Review noticed.
That sky high figure came from an internal employee compensation spreadsheet first leaked by Business Insider, which in 2026 gained a new column titled “AI $ Usage Per Month.” Only around 350 employees submitted data, but it showed that the company-wide median was roughly $300 per 28-day window, making our “tokenmaxxing” king a massive outlier.
Unsurprisingly, token usage varied wildly, according to Gadget Review, with a few other employees surging past the $10,000 mark, while others, sometimes in the same department, spent just tens of dollars.
