Company With Rp219 Trillion Revenue Plans Rp10,118 Trillion Spending Spree

Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia — OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, plans to spend US$600 billion (Rp10,118 trillion) on computing expenditure through to 2030. The aggressive spending is in preparation for OpenAI’s initial public offering.

OpenAI’s spending plans were reported by Reuters last week (23/2/2026). The company is reportedly targeting a valuation of US$1 trillion when it lists on the stock exchange.

The investment target remains far above the company’s reported revenue of just US$13 billion (Rp219 trillion) in 2025, which nonetheless exceeded projections of US$10 billion. Last year, OpenAI also managed to keep costs down to US$8 billion, below the projected US$9 billion.

OpenAI’s capital expenditure is likely to be supported by external capital injections. Nvidia, the AI chip manufacturer, is entering the final stages of committing US$30 billion in investment in OpenAI’s latest funding round.

OpenAI is seeking US$100 billion in fresh capital in its latest funding round. If successful in raising US$100 billion, the valuation of the company led by CEO Sam Altman would surpass US$830 billion (Rp13,997 trillion).

According to CNBC International, OpenAI is targeting revenue of US$280 billion by 2030 through its consumer and enterprise business divisions.

Altman stated last year that OpenAI is committed to investing US$1.4 trillion to develop 30 GW of computing capacity to support its operations. That capacity is equivalent to the electricity needed to supply 25 million households in the United States.

The Information reported that the massive spending plans are linked to AI models currently being developed by OpenAI. To investors, OpenAI executives stated that the cost capacity required to run inference — the process of processing new data by already-trained AI models — would quadruple in 2025.