{"id":1029844,"date":"2026-08-19T11:05:54","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T05:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1029844"},"modified":"2026-08-19T11:05:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T05:35:54","slug":"openai-gets-nvidia-backing-for-its-ohio-datacenter-that-is-said-to-be-latest-complex-transaction-aimed-to-help-company-secure-mega-computing-capacity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/19\/openai-gets-nvidia-backing-for-its-ohio-datacenter-that-is-said-to-be-latest-complex-transaction-aimed-to-help-company-secure-mega-computing-capacity\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI gets Nvidia backing for its Ohio datacenter that is said to be latest complex transaction aimed to help company secure mega computing capacity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI has signed a 20-year lease for roughly 8 gigawatts of computing capacity in Pike County, Ohio, and Nvidia has agreed to stand behind it. The chipmaker will be the exclusive supplier of AI compute at SB Energy&#8217;s PORTS-Pike Technology Campus, invest $1.5 billion in the SoftBank-backed developer, and provide credit support for the land, power and shell of the initial 4.25 IT-gigawatt phase. SB Energy will build, own and operate the site. OpenAI is only the tenant.<\/p>\n<p>The structure is the interesting part. Nvidia is backstopping the value of the finished data centre rather than OpenAI&#8217;s rent, according to The Wall Street Journal. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI has signed a 20-year lease for roughly 8 gigawatts of computing capacity in Pike County, Ohio, and Nvidia has agreed to stand behind it. The chipmaker will be the exclusive supplier of AI compute at SB Energy&#8217;s PORTS-Pike Technology Campus, invest $1.5 billion in the SoftBank-backed developer, and provide credit support for the land, power and shell of the initial 4.25 IT-gigawatt phase. SB Energy will build, own and operate the site. OpenAI is only the tenant. The structure is the interesting part. Nvidia is backstopping the value of the finished data centre rather than OpenAI&#8217;s rent, according to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1029844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1029844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1029846,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029844\/revisions\/1029846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}