Sam Altman says OpenAI has $20B ARR and about $1.4 trillion in data center commitments

Hardly ever has a month passed by in 2025 with out OpenAI signing one other multibillion-dollar information middle deal. In a prolonged submit on X on Thursday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman publicly clarified the totals.

“We anticipate to finish this 12 months above $20 billion in annualized income run charge and develop to tons of of billion by 2030. We’re taking a look at commitments of about $1.4 trillion over the following 8 years,” he wrote.

Whereas the submit was largely a response to a brouhaha over feedback his CFO made, and shortly walked again, regarding government-backstopped loans, Altman additionally listed a variety of future enterprise plans he believes will generate important income.

He stated OpenAI has an upcoming enterprise providing. Earlier this week, OpenAI stated it already had one million enterprise clients.

He named client units and robotics. In Could, OpenAI acquired Jony Ive’s io, and they’re reportedly engaged on a palm-sized AI system.

Altman talked about scientific discovery as an upcoming enterprise. Not a lot is thought about it but, besides that OpenAI VP Kevin Weil talked about a newly launched OpenAI for Science some months in the past.

Altman additionally stated OpenAI may develop into a cloud computing supplier: “We’re additionally taking a look at methods to extra immediately promote compute capability to different firms (and folks); we’re fairly positive the world goes to want quite a lot of ‘AI cloud’, and we’re excited to supply this.”

That’s a daring thought for a corporation that doesn’t but have its personal community of knowledge facilities.

Past income, Altman famous that the corporate may additionally pay for its wants the old style means: promoting extra fairness or taking over extra loans.