AI Development
Nvidia provides up to $105B guarantee for OpenAI Ohio data center
Editorial Analysis
Nvidia agreed to a guarantee of up to $105 billion to support OpenAI's lease of an up-to-8-gigawatt data center campus in Pike County, Ohio, developed by SoftBank-owned SB Energy, with Nvidia also investing $1.5 billion in SB Energy and serving as exclusive chip provider. The first 800 megawatts is targeted for 2028 under a 20-year lease. This represents one of the largest AI infrastructure financing commitments and locks substantial long-term compute capacity for frontier model training and inference.
At a Glance
Date
August 17, 2026
Importance
High
5/5
Category
Infrastructure
Axis of Change
Compute Scale
Organizations
Models Affected
Sources
- 01 reuters.com
- 02 bloomberg.com