Sam Altman, CEO of Open AI, is pictured on September 25, 2025 in Berlin, Germany. Florian Gaertner/Photothek/Getty Images

OpenAI is partnering with Broadcom to design and develop 10 gigawatts of custom AI chips and systems, a massive amount of power that will use as much electricity as a large city. The move further highlights just how power intensive the AI boom has become.

It’s the latest partnership between OpenAI and a high-profile chip company, coming after it struck deals with Nvidia and AMD as the company seeks to secure more computing resources to serve its growing user base. ChatGPT now has 800 million weekly users, and an executive suggested on X that the recently released Sora video generation app is growing faster than ChatGPT.

“Partnering with Broadcom is a critical

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