LLM Adoption in Utilities and Telecom: Cost Optimization Strategies

1Key Takeaways

• Utilities and telecommunications operators manage some of the most document-heavy, regulated operations in industry.
• Network topology logs, FCC or public utility commission filings, decades of maintenance records, and customer service transcripts create inference workloads where input tokens often dwarf output tokens.
• Under token-based pricing, every additional kilotoken in a prompt directly inflates the bill, making cost forecasting nearly impossible for teams running compliance audits, field….