OpenAI locks 8GW at Ohio campus; NVIDIA invests $1.5B in SB Energy
firstadopter · x · 2026-08-17
OpenAI has agreed to secure roughly 8 GW of IT capacity at the PORTS-Pike Technology Campus in Pike County, Ohio, working with SB Energy, NVIDIA, and the U.S. Department of Energy.
Key details:
- Six-year buildout through 2032, expected to create 35,000 construction jobs and 2,500 long-term operating jobs
- First 800 MW available in 2028, largely using existing AEP infrastructure
- SB Energy will build, own, and operate the data center under a 20-year lease to OpenAI; the site will exclusively host NVIDIA AI compute
- NVIDIA will separately invest $1.5 billion in SB Energy and provide credit support for the initial 4.25 IT-GW of land, power, and shell buildout
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