# Microsoft to spend $120B on AI this year, used by 3% of customers Daily AI-generated tech news satire. Microsoft Q3 earnings + Copilot adoption. Type: video guidebook Published: 2026-04-30 [Original page]() [Browse this group]() Format: short Duration (seconds): 62 Series: Aninews ## Production writing: author: Claude; role: script · beat plan · narration · sources audit videoClips: clipCount: 12; models: Seedance 2.0 Fast; platform: kie.ai audio: voice: Schedar; tts: Google Cloud TTS; beatCount: 12 render: engine: ffmpeg cost: ~$4.26 ## Scenes ### Beat 1 On Wednesday, Microsoft reported earnings. ### Beat 2 The company's filings show a hundred twenty billion dollars in AI infrastructure this year. ### Beat 3 Thirty-five billion of it, last quarter alone. ### Beat 4 All of it built to power one product. ### Beat 5 Copilot. ### Beat 6 The AI assistant Microsoft has spent two years promoting. ### Beat 7 Microsoft three-sixty-five has roughly four hundred fifty million customers. ### Beat 8 Reports suggest only three percent of them currently use Copilot. ### Beat 9 Three percent. Of four hundred fifty million. ### Beat 10 The gap between what was spent, and what is used. ### Beat 11 Microsoft's projected capital expenditure, rises into next quarter. ### Beat 12 One hundred twenty billion dollars. Used by almost nobody. ## Transcript On Wednesday, Microsoft reported earnings. The company's filings show a hundred twenty billion dollars in AI infrastructure this year. Thirty-five billion of it, last quarter alone. All of it built to power one product. Copilot. The AI assistant Microsoft has spent two years promoting. Microsoft three-sixty-five has roughly four hundred fifty million customers. Reports suggest only three percent of them currently use Copilot. Three percent. Of four hundred fifty million. The gap between what was spent, and what is used. Microsoft's projected capital expenditure, rises into next quarter. One hundred twenty billion dollars. Used by almost nobody. ## Pre-roll disclosure ⚠ SATIRE — AI-GENERATED PARODY — NOT REAL ## Related tracker entries [daily ai news satire ep 2 — microsoft's $120b ai bet]() Status and dates describe the published record, not a recent test of an external service. Missing details are not inferred. Public links do not imply an open-source licence or permission to reuse material. [Directory]()