DVDeephika Vijayintech-under-the-hood.hashnode.dev·Sep 6 · 9 min readYour “Thank You” to AI Travels Further Than You Think: Inside the Data Centers Powering India's AI Future In April 2025, someone asked a surprisingly specific question on X: How much electricity—and therefore money—does OpenAI spend because people say “please” and “thank you” to AI? Sam Altman replied: “16PAI
