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Nvidia reportedly commits up to $105B to back OpenAI-leased 8GW Ohio data center campus
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Nvidia agrees to underwrite financing for SB Energy’s Ohio data center campus, which OpenAI will lease for AI compute infrastructure, alongside a $1.5B equity investment in SB Energy.
This shifts AI infrastructure risk from cloud providers to Nvidia, creating a direct financial link between chip supplier and AI workloads. The scale of the commitment signals Nvidia’s push to control the supply chain for large-scale AI training and inference. For engineers, it means tighter integration between hardware and data center operations, but also potential vendor lock-in.
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Nvidia will backstop up to $105B in financing for SB Energy’s Ohio data center campus, leased by OpenAI for 8GW of AI compute capacity.
The deal includes a $1.5B equity investment by Nvidia in SB Energy, alongside SoftBank and OpenAI as existing investors.
The project aims to create 35,000 construction jobs and positions Nvidia as the exclusive AI compute provider for the campus.
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