# OpenAI — Rapidly scaling online storage to serve over 1 billion ChatGPT users

- Company: OpenAI (openai.com)
- Announced: 2026-09-11T10:00:00+00:00
- Category: infrastructure-release
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://openai.com/index/scaling-storage-one-billion-users-part-one
- Record: https://forck.live/items/10258-rapidly-scaling-online-storage-to-serve-over-1-billion-chatgpt-users
- Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API

OpenAI detailed how its online storage platform, Habitat, scaled to support over 1 billion weekly users, handling more than 70 million requests per second and serving over 500 petabytes of data. The post explains Habitat's evolution from a Python client-side library into a standalone service, and outlines the platform's architecture, including its use of Azure Cosmos DB, caches, and other storage resources.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://openai.com/index/scaling-storage-one-billion-users-part-one:

> Habitat is the online storage platform we built so OpenAI products can quickly and reliably access needed information. Habitat now handles more than 70 million requests every second, supporting products used by over 1 billion people each week, across almost 40 geographic regions.

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