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OpenAI lists Google as cloud partner amid growing demand for computing capacity
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Posted on July 16, 2025
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Published by Global Banking & Finance Review®
Posted on July 16, 2025
2 min readLast updated: January 22, 2026
OpenAI partners with Google Cloud to meet rising AI computing needs, diversifying its cloud providers beyond Microsoft. The partnership marks a significant shift in AI infrastructure dynamics.
(Reuters) -OpenAI has included Alphabet's Google Cloud among its suppliers to meet escalating demands for computing capacity, according to an updated list published on the ChatGPT maker's website.
The artificial-intelligence giant also relies on services from Microsoft, Oracle, and CoreWeave.
The deal with Google, finalized in May after months of discussions, was first reported by Reuters citing a source in June.
The arrangement underscores how massive computing demands to train and deploy AI models are reshaping the competitive dynamics in AI, and marks OpenAI's latest move to diversify its compute sources beyond its major supporter Microsoft, including its high-profile Stargate data center project.
Earlier this year, OpenAI partnered with SoftBank and Oracle on the $500 billion Stargate infrastructure program and signed multi-billion-dollar agreements with CoreWeave to bolster computing capacity.
The partnership with Google is the latest of several maneuvers made by OpenAI to reduce its dependency on Microsoft whose Azure cloud service had served as the ChatGPT maker's exclusive data center infrastructure provider until January.
Google and OpenAI discussed an arrangement for months but were previously blocked from signing a deal due to OpenAI's lock-in with Microsoft, a source had told Reuters.
(Reporting by Kritika Lamba in Bengaluru; Editing by Mohammed Safi Shamsi)
The partnership allows OpenAI to meet escalating demands for computing capacity and diversifies its compute sources beyond Microsoft.
The deal with Google was finalized in May after months of discussions.
OpenAI also relies on services from Microsoft, Oracle, and CoreWeave.
Before partnering with Google, OpenAI was primarily dependent on Microsoft's Azure cloud service.
The Stargate infrastructure program is a $500 billion initiative that OpenAI partnered on with SoftBank and Oracle to bolster computing capacity.
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