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Nvidia to provide up to US$105 billion guarantee for OpenAI’s Ohio data centre

Nvidia to provide up to US$105 billion guarantee for OpenAI’s Ohio data centre
South China Morning Post Monday 17 August 2026, 17:30 UTC By Reuters 1 min read
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Nvidia has agreed to ⁠guarantee as much as US$105 billion ⁠in lease payments to help ⁠OpenAI secure a sprawling data centre in Ohio being developed by SoftBank-backed SB Energy, in one of the chipmaker’s largest infrastructure financing commitments. The chip giant will also invest US$1.5 billion in SB Energy and secure up to 8 gigawatts of AI computing capacity at ‌the site, where the data centre developer will build, own and operate a campus for OpenAI under a 20-year lease, the companies...

Nvidia has agreed to ⁠guarantee as much as US$105 billion ⁠in lease payments to help ⁠OpenAI secure a sprawling data centre in Ohio being developed by SoftBank-backed SB Energy, in one of the chipmaker’s largest infrastructure financing commitments. The chip giant will also invest US$1.5 billion in SB Energy and secure up to 8 gigawatts of AI computing capacity at ‌the site, where the data centre developer will build, own and operate a campus for OpenAI under a 20-year lease, the companies said... [Image text:] DVIDIA OpenAl
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