Right now, somewhere, an AI agent is working.

Not answering a question. Working.

It's running in the background, checking its own output, calling tools, fixing what it got wrong, trying again. Nobody's watching it. It just keeps going.

And every second it runs, it's burning tokens. Little chunks of text the model reads and writes. Each one costs real money.

Goldman Sachs just tried to count all of it. Every agent, everywhere, by 2030.

The number they landed on is 120 quadrillion tokens. A month.

That's twenty-four times more than today. In four years.