Hosting is a trivial cost for them. Bandwidth costs to serve text are super cheap these days, and they can do quite a bit of caching. You might be surprised wha

Hosting is a trivial cost for them. Bandwidth costs to serve text are super cheap these days, and they can do quite a bit of caching. You might be surprised what the money is actually spent on, but they're reasonably transparent about it Their complete audited accounts for 2019-20, page 3 [0] Total expenses: $129 million, of which - Salaries (~500 staff): $55 million - Awards and Grants (I suppose this is them donating to other causes?): $23 million - Hosting: $2.5 million - Professional Services (mostly lawyers?): $11 million - Donation processing: $4 million (3% seems reasonable here) - Other operating expenses: $10 million [0] https://wikimediafoundation.org/about/financial-reports/#a1-2021-2022 https://wikimediafoundation.org/about/financial-reports/#a1-...