Nvidia, SB Energy Announce Massive Ohio Data Center for OpenAI
Nvidia will invest $1.5 billion in SB Energy to support an eight-gigawatt Ohio data center that the company will build and operate for OpenAI. The post Nvidia, SB Energy Announce Massive Ohio Data Center for OpenAI appeared first on TechRepublic .
Nvidia has committed $1.5 billion to SB Energy, a partner majority owned by SoftBank, to help build an eight-gigawatt Ohio data center for OpenAI. This investment further strengthens Nvidia's financial and infrastructure ties to OpenAI, with the chipmaker already providing over $100 billion in credit support. SB Energy is responsible for constructing the data center and sourcing the power generation needed to operate it, with plans to secure up to 10 gigawatts of power, mostly from natural gas.
When fully operational, the data center will provide up to eight gigawatts of compute capacity, with a total project cost estimated at around $500 billion. The Ohio campus will be OpenAI's largest exclusive data center, leased to the company for 20 years. Nvidia's substantial investment in OpenAI's infrastructure demonstrates the company's confidence in the AI lab and its growing dominance in the GPU market for data centers, with a market share of over 85%.
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