Nvidia Investing $1.5B in SoftBank Data Center Developer Behind OpenAI Project
TechCrunch AI · rss · 2026-08-17
Nvidia plans to invest $1.5 billion in a SoftBank-backed data center developer, the entity behind the OpenAI project. This investment guarantees that Nvidia's chips will power the upcoming OpenAI data center.
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