“OpenAI's audacious long-term goal is to build 250 gigawatts of capacity by 2033.”
Said Sep 2025Deadline Dec 31, 2033Internal OpenAI memo, September 2025, as reported by The Information (September 29, 2025) and corroborated by Fortune (October 11, 2025)
For scale: 250GW is roughly a third of US peak power demand and more than India's total capacity; OpenAI was operating on the order of a gigawatt-scale footprint when the memo was written.