TREE NEWS reports: Nvidia, OpenAI, and SoftBank’s SB Energy have partnered to build a massive data center in Ohio with at least 10GW of capacity, featuring Nvidia’s compute infrastructure. Nvidia will provide up to $105 billion in residual value guarantees for OpenAI’s 20-year lease, marking a new role for chipmakers in data center financing. The deal highlights the growing importance of securing land, power, and data center capacity for AI development.
Nvidia, OpenAI, SoftBank Partner on 10GW Ohio Data Center
AI take
The headline number is capacity, but the structural shift is Nvidia backstopping a customer's lease — a chip supplier absorbing residual-value risk it would traditionally leave to landlords or financiers. That blurs the line between vendor and financier, and it matters most for utilities, grid operators and other developers competing for the same power and land in a market where 10GW is a serious claim on both. The open question is whether this template spreads to other large AI tenants, which would change how data center risk is priced.
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