{"slug": "rapidly-scaling-online-storage-to-serve-over-1-billion-chatgpt-users-part-ii", "title": "Rapidly scaling online storage to serve over 1 billion ChatGPT users (Part II)", "summary": "OpenAI detailed how it scaled its Habitat online storage system to serve more than 1 billion ChatGPT users, using reliable multi-tenancy, global caching and Azure Cosmos DB to deliver 12× faster reads. The engineering account, published as Part II on the OpenAI Blog, describes the infrastructure work behind ChatGPT's storage layer.", "body_md": "# Rapidly scaling online storage to serve over 1 billion ChatGPT users (Part II)\n\nSource: \n\n[OpenAI Blog](https://openai.com)\nLearn how \n\n[OpenAI](https://www.machinebrief.com/glossary/openai)scaled Habitat with reliable multi-tenancy, global caching, and Azure Cosmos DB to deliver 12× faster reads for[ChatGPT](https://www.machinebrief.com/compare/chatgpt-vs-claude).\nGet AI news in your inbox\n\nDaily digest of what matters in AI.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/rapidly-scaling-online-storage-to-serve-over-1-billion-chatgpt-users-part-ii", "canonical_source": "https://www.machinebrief.com/news/rapidly-scaling-online-storage-to-serve-over-1-billion-chatg-935t", "published_at": "2026-10-23 17:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-23 17:15:26.846367+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-infrastructure", "large-language-models", "artificial-intelligence"], "entities": ["OpenAI", "ChatGPT", "Habitat", "Azure Cosmos DB"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/rapidly-scaling-online-storage-to-serve-over-1-billion-chatgpt-users-part-ii", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/rapidly-scaling-online-storage-to-serve-over-1-billion-chatgpt-users-part-ii.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/rapidly-scaling-online-storage-to-serve-over-1-billion-chatgpt-users-part-ii.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/rapidly-scaling-online-storage-to-serve-over-1-billion-chatgpt-users-part-ii.jsonld"}}