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

DevFeed: [Rapidly scaling online storage to serve over 1 billion ChatGPT users](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/rapidly-scaling-online-storage-to-serve-over-1-billion-chatgpt-users-6642.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://openai.com/index/scaling-storage-one-billion-users-part-one>)

Published: 2026-09-11T10:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [OpenAI News](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/openai-news.md>)

Topics: [cloud-infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud-infrastructure.md>), [Database](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/database.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>)

Tags: [chatgpt](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/chatgpt.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [database](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/database.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [global](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/global.md>), [infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/infrastructure.md>), [openai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/openai.md>), [platform](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/platform.md>), [python](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/python.md>), [scale](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/scale.md>), [storage](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/storage.md>)

## AI overview

OpenAI describes scaling Habitat from a Python client-side library into a distributed online storage platform for global product traffic. The article focuses on reliability, performance, and capacity decisions made during rapid growth.

## Source excerpt

Learn how OpenAI evolved Habitat from a Python library into a globally distributed storage platform serving 1 billion ChatGPT users and 22M requests per second.