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title: "OpenAI details storage system serving 1 billion ChatGPT users"
url: https://www.parallelquant.com/posts/openai-details-storage-system-serving-1-billion-chatgpt-users-53531a
source_name: "OpenAI"
source_url: https://openai.com/index/scaling-storage-one-billion-users-part-one
published: 2026-09-11T10:00:00.000Z
topics: ["products", "chips"]
publisher: "Parallel Quant"
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# OpenAI details storage system serving 1 billion ChatGPT users

*2026-09-11 · Source: [OpenAI](https://openai.com/index/scaling-storage-one-billion-users-part-one)*

OpenAI published details on Habitat, its storage platform that evolved from a Python library into infrastructure serving over 1 billion ChatGPT users and handling 22 million requests per second.

**Why it matters:** These numbers give a rare concrete glimpse into ChatGPT's actual operating scale, and the fact that a storage layer needs its own dedicated distributed platform underscores how much infrastructure investment goes into serving consumer AI products beyond just GPUs.

**Topics:** products, chips

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