Nvidia has agreed to \u2060guarantee as much as US$105 billion \u2060in lease payments to help \u2060OpenAI secure a sprawling data centre in Ohio being developed by SoftBank-backed SB Energy, in one of the chipmaker\u2019s largest infrastructure financing commitments.<\/p>\n
The chip giant will also invest US$1.5 billion in SB Energy and secure up to 8 gigawatts of AI computing capacity at \u200cthe site, where the data centre developer will build, own and operate a campus for OpenAI under a 20-year lease, the companies said on Monday.<\/p>\n
The deal is the latest example of Nvidia financing the infrastructure built around its chips, a strategy that helps drive demand but has also raised questions about circular funding flows between the chip giant and its customers.<\/p>\n
Nvidia has secured land \u2060and power for the facility in Pike County, Ohio, for an AI data centre with an initial \u200ccapacity of 4.25GW, expected to come online in phases beginning in 2028. One gigawatt is enough electricity to power roughly 750,000 US homes.<\/p>\n
The chip giant will \u200cexclusively provide AI compute infrastructure at the site and is providing credit support for land, power \u2060and shell construction \u2060tied to the initial capacity. It also has an option to secure the remaining 3.75GW.<\/p>\n
Leading technology firms are increasingly tying \u200ctogether chips, power and data centre development as they race to meet soaring AI demand, while ageing grids, lengthy approval processes and scarce \u200cland and \u200cpower capacity constrain new projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nvidia has agreed to \u2060guarantee as much as US$105 billion \u2060in lease payments to help \u2060OpenAI secure a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[70306,24,580,2446,58,468,157,70307,61164,7150,4421],"class_list":["post-142644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-openai","tag-aep-ohio","tag-ai","tag-chatgpt","tag-jensen-huang","tag-nvidia","tag-ohio","tag-openai","tag-pike-county","tag-sb-energy","tag-softbank","tag-stargate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}