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Nvidia investing $1.5B in SoftBank data center developer behind OpenAI project
Nvidia's investment in SoftBank's data center developer will guarantee its chips power an OpenAI data center.
TL;DR
- Nvidia is investing $1.5 billion in SB Energy, a data center developer.
- SB Energy is linked to SoftBank and OpenAI.
- Nvidia will be the exclusive supplier of compute infrastructure for OpenAI's Ports-Pike data center.
- Nvidia will also provide up to $105 billion in credit for the facility.
- SB Energy plans to build a 9.2 gigawatt natural gas power plant on land owned by the U.S. Department of Energy.
- The power plant is expected to cost $33 billion.