Nvidia to Back OpenAI’s Ohio AI Data Center with ~$100B Financing

The headline number is striking, but the more telling signal is structural: a chip supplier extending roughly $100 billion in financing to a customer's buildout blurs the line between vendor and creditor. That matters for anyone tracking how AI data centers get funded, because it concentrates both technology and balance-sheet exposure in one relationship. The open question is whether this becomes a template for other suppliers backing their own demand, or stays a one-off arrangement.