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

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**Published:** 2026-09-11T10:00:00.000Z
**Category:** Infra
**Topics:** openai, infra, storage, scaling, habitat

## Summary

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\.

## Sources

- [Story source](<https://openai.com/index/scaling-storage-one-billion-users-part-one>)