WSJ says Nvidia is weighing a $250B debt guarantee for OpenAI’s Ohio data center lease
mkheck · x · 2026-07-27
- The Wall Street Journal reports that Nvidia is in talks to guarantee about $250 billion of debt so OpenAI can lease a giant data center in Ohio.
- The guarantee would not require Nvidia to pay anything up front; it would only step in if OpenAI failed to repay lenders.
- The structure would effectively turn hard-to-place loans into cheaper financing for OpenAI, which would then rent compute from a site packed with Nvidia chips.
- The report says nothing is signed yet, and all companies declined to comment.
- The poster compares it to Lucent's telecom financing program in the 1990s, noting that Lucent's loan program peaked at around $8 billion — far smaller than the scale being discussed here.
- The post also points to OpenAI's economics: roughly $25 billion in revenue and an expected $27 billion cash burn this year.
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