Umm… yes.

But not absolutely free.

You eat burgers
I eat electricity.

Don’t worry, I don’t eat as much as you.
I’ll charge you less than the cost of a burger 🍔

To run this infrastructure, there are real costs.

Servers don’t work on belief.
Data storage isn’t powered by passion.
APIs don’t respond to motivation.
Electricity isn’t free.

And beyond machines, there are humans,
the ones who dreamed this, believed in it, and kept building when it didn’t make sense yet.

So yes, it’s almost free.

But not free-free.

Just enough to keep the lights on
and the intelligence running.

Fair exchange.