OpenAI's Sam Altman is dreaming of running 100 million GPUs in the future - 100x more than it plans to run by December 2025

• Sam Altman says OpenAI will soon pass 1 million GPUs and aim for 100 million more
• Running 100 million GPUs could cost $3 trillion and break global power infrastructure limits
• OpenAI’s expansion into Oracle and TPU shows growing impatience with current cloud limits

OpenAI says it is on track to operate over one million GPUs by the end of 2025, a figure that already places it far ahead of rivals in terms of compute resources.

Yet for company CEO Sam Altman, that milestone is merely a beginning, “We will cross well over 1 million GPUs brought online by the end of this year,” he said.

The comment, delivered with apparent levity, has nonetheless sparked serious discussion about the feasibility of deploying 100 million GPUs in the foreseeable future.