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

**Published:** September 11, 2026
**Author:** OpenAI News
**Source:** OpenAI Blog
**Language:** en-US
**HTML:** https://aiqazaqstan.com/en/articles/rapidly-scaling-online-storage-to-serve-over-1-billion-chatgpt-users

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.

> From the original source: **OpenAI Blog**
> [Read full article at OpenAI Blog](https://openai.com/index/scaling-storage-one-billion-users-part-one)

**Tags:** #OpenAI

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