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Inside OpenAI's Infrastructure Push: Scaling ChatGPT & the Heavy Cost Behind It

Published October 7, 2025

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A satirical card visualizing the massive strain behind scaling ChatGPT and AI infrastructure - where hardware, energy, latency, and cost form a beast to be wrestled.

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The CNN explainer dives into how OpenAI is structuring its AI infrastructure - from data centers and hardware to networking, scaling, and power demands. It highlights the challenges behind running ChatGPT at global scale: hardware costs, latency, energy consumption, model updates, and how those infrastructure layers become bottlenecks if not robustly built.

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