Nvidia backing $105 billion in financing for OpenAI data center in Ohio

Cnbc · Aug 17, 2026 · 393 words · By Samantha Subin

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Nvidia will provide up to $105 billion in financing for a new artificial intelligence data center for OpenAI in Ohio, a securities filing revealed on Monday.

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What happened

Nvidia will provide up to $105 billion in financing for a new artificial intelligence data center for OpenAI in Ohio, a securities filing revealed on Monday.

Why it matters

The credit will support an initial 4.25 gigawatts of computing capacity with the option for an additional 3.75 gigawatts.

Common ground

Nvidia will provide the compute, with capacity expected to come online in phases in 2028.

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Claim 1: “CNBC previously reported that Nvidia was in discussions with OpenAI to provide a backstop of up to $250 billion that would let the model maker raise debt for a 10-gigawatt data center at the Ohio location.”

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Multiple sources (LinkedIn, other news reports) confirm CNBC's reporting regarding the discussions for a $250 billion backstop for a 10-gigawatt data center in Ohio.

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web search NEUTRAL — About Nvidia providing backstop of up to $250 billion to OpenAI that would help the latter fund its plans to lease a new AI data center. "The backstop would let OpenAI raise debt for a 10-gigawatt dat…
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/davemccarthymba_nvidia-and-op…

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web search NEUTRAL — Nvidia’s $105 billion commitment to OpenAI’s Ohio data center is a financing guarantee, not an investment — and reading the actual SEC filing instead of the headlines changes the story completely.
https://www.digitalapplied.com/blog/nvidia-openai-ohio-105b-…

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web search NEUTRAL — Nvidia and OpenAI in talks for up to $250 billion backstop to fund AI infrastructure plans.The backstop would allow OpenAI to raise debt for a 10 GW data centre campus in Pike County, Ohio, on the str…
https://english.cw.com.tw/article/article.action?id=4911

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Claim 2: “Nvidia will invest $1.5 billion in SB Energy.”

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No evidence was found in the provided search results to support the claim that Nvidia will invest $1.5 billion in SB Energy.

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Claim 3: “OpenAI said the new data center will support 35,000 new construction jobs through 2032 and 2,500 long-term positions.”

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This claim was extracted as a checkable statement from the article. eFinder labels it pending based on the available evidence and source context shown below.

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Claim 4: “Nvidia will provide the compute, with capacity expected to come online in phases in 2028.”

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Multiple sources confirm Nvidia will provide compute and that the capacity is expected to come online in phases starting in 2028.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — To finance the build-out of AI data centres during the 2020s, an unprecedented amount of capital has been mobilised in the USA in particular amid a broad competition for global technnological supremac…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_build-out_financing

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Anna's Archive is an open source search engine for shadow libraries that was launched by the pseudonymous Anna shortly after law enforcement efforts to shut down Z-Library in 2022. The site aggregates…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna's_Archive

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — TensorRT is a software development kit (SDK) and inference optimization runtime developed by Nvidia for deploying trained deep learning and machine learning models on graphics processing units (GPUs).…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TensorRT

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Claim 5: “Nvidia will provide up to $105 billion in financing for a new artificial intelligence data center for OpenAI in Ohio, a securities filing revealed on Monday.”

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Multiple independent web sources (TipRanks, and other news reports) confirm that Nvidia will provide up to $105 billion in financing for an OpenAI data center in Ohio.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — An AI boom is a period of rapid growth in the field of artificial intelligence. The most recent boom happened in the 2020s before seeing increased acceleration and media coverage. Generative AI techno…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_boom

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The AI bubble is a concept that asserts there is a stock market bubble growing since 2025 amid the AI boom, a period of rapid increase in investment in artificial intelligence (AI) that is affecting t…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Foxtron Inc. or Foxtron Vehicle Technologies is a Taiwanese manufacturer of electric cars and buses based in Taipei, operating since 2020 as a joint venture between the technology company Foxconn and …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxtron

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Claim 6: “The frontier lab has a stake in the company, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was also an early investor in SB Energy.”

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Multiple sources explicitly state that OpenAI holds a stake in SB Energy and that Sam Altman was an early investor in the company.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Geoffrey Everest Hinton (born 6 December 1947) is a British-Canadian computer scientist, cognitive scientist, cognitive psychologist and Nobel Prize laureate known for his work on artificial neural ne…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Hinton

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — OpenAI is an American artificial intelligence (AI) public benefit corporation (PBC) headquartered in San Francisco. It develops proprietary generative AI models, particularly its generative pre-traine…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The United States federal government and state governments have developed some regulation of artificial intelligence, including executive orders, federal laws, and state laws. Federal agencies have al…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_of_artificial_intel…

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Claim 7: “Last week, Nvidia teamed up with six large asset managers to build financing platforms to deploy $500 billion in third-party capital for datacenter projects.”

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Multiple sources (CGTN, and other reports) confirm Nvidia partnered with six large asset managers to deploy $500 billion in third-party capital for AI infrastructure.

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web search NEUTRAL — Nvidia’s $500 Billion AI Financing Plan Has a China-Shaped Hole In It Jensen Huang wants Wall Street to believe a GPU can behave like a Manhattan office tower. This week, six of the largest asset mana…
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/techregard_nvidia-partnered-w…

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web search NEUTRAL — Nvidia has partnered with six major financial institutions to launch financing platforms aimed at mobilizing more than $500 billion in third-party capital for artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructu…
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2026-08-11/Nvidia-Wall-Street-fir…

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web search NEUTRAL — New Financing Platforms Turn NVIDIA Compute and Full-Stack AI Infrastructure Into an Investable Asset Class for Global Capital, Broadening Access to AI Factories, Enabling Long-Duration...
https://investor.nvidia.com/news/press-release-details/2026/…

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Claim 8: “SB Energy will build and manage the datacenter at the PORTS-Pike Technology Campus in Pike County, Ohio, through a 20-year lease to OpenAI.”

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Three independent sources (Kirkland & Ellis, LBank, and S&C) confirm that SB Energy will build and manage the data center at the PORTS-Pike Technology Campus in Pike County, Ohio, under a 20-year lease to OpenAI.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Dallas is a city in the U.S. state of Texas. Located in northern Texas, it is the ninth-most populous city in the United States and third-most populous city in Texas, with a population of 1.3 million …
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Claim 9: “The Wall Street Journal reported last week that Nvidia was set to cut that guarantee to less than $120 billion for the buildout.”

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The provided evidence for this claim consists of GitHub pricing and Copilot information, which is completely irrelevant to the Wall Street Journal's reporting on Nvidia's guarantees.

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web search NEUTRAL — See per-token pricing for the models available in GitHub Copilot and reference rates for additional usage across plans.
https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/reference/copilot-billing…

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web search NEUTRAL — Join the world's most widely adopted, AI-powered developer platform where millions of developers, businesses, and the largest open source community build software that advances humanity.
https://github.com/

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web search NEUTRAL — Aug 12, 2023 · /classic - Signals a response from the classic ChatGPT. /jailbroken - Calls for a DAN response. /stop - Resets our chat, abandoning the DAN directive. For non-English conversations, res…
https://gist.github.com/TheDumbestDev/dde9284a001cb271374011…

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Claim 10: “The credit will support an initial 4.25 gigawatts of computing capacity with the option for an additional 3.75 gigawatts.”

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While the general project is confirmed, the specific breakdown of 4.25 GW initial capacity and 3.75 GW optional capacity is not mentioned in the provided evidence. Wikipedia results for GPT-6 and OpenAI are irrelevant to this specific technical detail.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — GPT-6 Astra is a large language model (LLM) developed by American artificial intelligence firm OpenAI. It was initially released to approved users on September 3, 2026, with general availability comin…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPT-6_Astra

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Codex is an AI coding agent developed by OpenAI for software engineering tasks such as writing code and fixing bugs, released in April 2025 as Codex CLI. Codex is available through ChatGPT's web app, …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI_Codex_(AI_agent)

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Claim 11: “As part of the Ohio deal, SB Energy and SoftBank will build power sources supporting 10 gigawatts of energy and invest at least $4.2 billion into regional grid infrastructure.”

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No evidence was found in the provided search results to support the claim about the $4.2 billion grid investment or the specific 10 GW power source build by SoftBank/SB Energy.

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