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# OpenAI details Habitat, the storage platform behind ChatGPT's 22M requests per second
- URL: https://globalfeed.ai/en/openai-details-habitat-the-storage-platform-behind-chatgpts-22m-requests-per-second/
- Published: 2026-09-12T18:12:37.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-12T18:12:37.000Z
- Description: OpenAI published a technical post describing how Habitat grew from a Python library into a globally distributed storage platform serving 1 billion ChatGPT users.
- Author: GlobalFeed Editor
- Tags: OpenAI, ChatGPT, infrastructure, x-OpenAI, dil-en, video

OpenAI has published a technical write-up about the storage layer behind ChatGPT. At its centre is a system called Habitat, which started life as a Python library and was rebuilt into a globally distributed storage platform.

According to figures shared by the company, the platform now serves 1 billion ChatGPT users and handles 22 million requests per second. The post walks through how the team reached that scale.

## Why it matters

Storage rarely gets the attention model quality does, but it is among the first components to become a bottleneck as a chat product's user base grows. OpenAI's path from a library to a distributed platform reads as a practical case study for teams on a similar growth curve.

The article is the first part of a multi-post series. For the architectural decisions, the problems encountered and the fixes applied, read the full text on [OpenAI's official blog](https://openai.com/index/scaling-storage-one-billion-users-part-one?ref=globalfeed.ai).