Global token demand projected to rise 40-fold by 2030

A post quotes Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon projecting a 40-fold rise in global token demand, from about 31.7 billion tokens every 10 seconds in 2026 to 1.27 trillion in 2030. The poster links that projected growth to AI shifting from human-paced interactions to agent-paced activity, which can require tokens for context, memory, sensor interpretation and error checks.