On August 17, Nvidia committed to provide up to $105 billion in guarantees supporting OpenAI's 20-year lease of a massive data center in Pike County, Ohio. The campus is planned for up to 8 gigawatts of IT capacity, with the first 800 MW expected by 2028. Nvidia is also investing $1.5 billion in SB Energy, the SoftBank subsidiary developing the facility.
The scale is extraordinary: the project is intended to house more than a million Nvidia AI chips, while SB Energy is expected to develop roughly 10 GW of new power capacity for the broader project.
*Why it matters
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This shows that the AI race is no longer just:
Who has the best model?
It is also:
Who can secure enough chips + electricity + networking + land + financing to operate those models at scale?
The financing structure is particularly interesting because Nvidia is helping finance infrastructure that will ultimately create demand for Nvidia's own chips. That has prompted discussion about whether parts of the AI economy are becoming financially interconnected or “circular.” Nvidia disputes that characterization.
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