# OpenAI's in-house storage platform passes 500 petabytes and 70 million requests a second as the company plans for exabyte scale

Habitat, which serves ChatGPT and Codex in about 40 regions, grew more than tenfold in a year, and two engineers rewrote it from Python to Rust using OpenAI's own tools.

- Published: 2026-10-25T06:22:55.342Z
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OpenAI is building its own exabyte-scale storage to keep ChatGPT running as usage grows, and physical space has become a constraint, the Telegram channel AI Post reported. The system it is outgrowing is Habitat, OpenAI's online storage plat…

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