Hardly a month will go by in 2025 without OpenAI inking a multibillion-dollar data center deal. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman publicly revealed the total in a lengthy post on X on Thursday.
“We expect to finish this year with an annual revenue run rate of over $20 billion and grow to hundreds of billions of dollars by 2030. We are looking at approximately $1.4 trillion in commitments over the next eight years,” he said.
Although the post was largely a response to the uproar surrounding the CFO’s remarks about government backstop financing, which he quickly retracted, Altman also listed several future business plans that he believes will generate significant revenue.
He said OpenAI has future enterprise products. Earlier this week, OpenAI announced that it already has 1 million enterprise customers.
He gave his name to consumer devices and robotics. In May, OpenAI acquired Jony Ive’s io and is reportedly working on developing a palm-sized AI device.
Altman cited scientific discovery as the future of business. Not much is known about it yet, except that OpenAI Vice President Kevin Weil mentioned the newly launched OpenAI for Science a few months ago.
Altman also said OpenAI could become a cloud computing provider, saying, “We’re also looking at ways to sell our computing power more directly to other companies (and people). We believe the world is going to need a lot of ‘AI clouds,’ and we’re excited to be able to provide this.”
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This is a bold idea for companies that don’t already have their own data center network.
Beyond revenue, Altman said, the company could meet its needs in old-fashioned ways by selling more stock or taking out more loans.
