Nvidia Backs OpenAI's $105 Billion Ohio Data Center Project

Nvidia and OpenAI have announced a massive data center project in Ohio, backed by a $105 billion financing commitment from Nvidia. The project will be built on the site of a former Cold War-era uranium enrichment plant and could eventually grow to have 8 gigawatts (GW) of capacity.

The data center will run exclusively on Nvidia chips, and OpenAI has committed to leasing it for 20 years. SoftBank and the data center's owner, SB Energy, will invest more than $4 billion into local energy infrastructure and build at least 10 GW of new energy generation to power the data center.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in a statement that this site 'will have enough computing power to help millions of people use AI to do things we can only start to imagine today.'