Nvidia backs OpenAI Ohio campus

Nvidia is reportedly providing up to $105 billion in financing support for an OpenAI-leased data center in Ohio, a scale that would make the project one of the largest single AI infrastructure commitments disclosed to date. The structure is described as a financing backstop or guarantee rather than a simple chip sale, underscoring how deeply Nvidia is moving into project finance to keep GPU demand compounding. OpenAI gets capacity for future frontier models without carrying the whole upfront burden, while Nvidia strengthens the customer flywheel around its accelerators, networking and software stack. For the industry, this blurs the line between supplier, landlord and strategic financier.

Sources from the briefing

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