Futurism: OpenAI, Nvidia’s new 8 GW AI power push

🔌 OpenAI, Nvidia’s new 8 GW AI power push
Image source: SB Energy
The Rundown: OpenAI and Nvidia announced a new Ohio AI campus set to deliver nearly 8 GW of AI compute at a Cold War-era uranium plant in Pike County, Ohio, with Nvidia supplying every chip and backing the buildout with up to $105B of its own credit.
The details:
A 2028 target covers just the opening 800 MW build, with the rest being constructed on federal land cleaned up after the plant shut down.OAI is leasing the campus from SB Energy, with Nvidia also investing $1.5B in the company (which also has previous investments from OAI and SoftBank). Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang published an article alongside the news, saying frontier labs are constrained by infrastructure and financing, not demand. Huang also addressed claims Nvidia is funding its own sales via circular financing, saying: “No. OpenAI will pay the lease.”
Why it matters: Not sure that a deal between OAI, Nvidia, and an early Sam Altman investment company that is majority-owned by SoftBank is going to help the circular dealmaking allegations, but either way, this is one of the biggest AI buildouts to date. It also interestingly comes outside of Stargate, which has quietly had a rocky 2026
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Life event that changes all: Horse riding accident in Zimbabwe in 1993, a fractured skull et al including bipolar anxiety, chronic fatigue …. co-morbidities (Nietzche 'He who has the reason why can deal with any how' details my health history from 1993 to date). 17th 2017 August operation for breast cancer (no indications just an appointment came from BreastCheck through the Post). Trinity College Dublin Business Economics and Social Studies (but no degree) 1997-2003; UCD 1997/1998 night classes) essays, projects, writings. Trinity Horizon Programme 1997/98 (Centre for Women Studies Trinity College Dublin/St. Patrick's Foundation (Professor McKeon) EU Horizon funded: research study of 15 women (I was one of this group and it became the cornerstone of my journey to now 2017) over 9 mth period diagnosed with depression and their reintegration into society, with special emphasis on work, arts, further education; Notes from time at Trinity Horizon Project 1997/98; Articles written for Irishhealth.com 2003/2004; St Patricks Foundation monthly lecture notes for a specific period in time; Selection of Poetry including poems written by people I know; Quotations 1998-2017; other writings mainly with theme of social justice under the heading Citizen Journalism Ireland. Letters written to friends about life in Zimbabwe; Family history including Michael Comyn KC, my grandfather, my grandmother's family, the O'Donnellan ffrench Blake-Forsters; Moral wrong: An acrimonious divorce but the real injustice was the Catholic Church granting an annulment – you can read it and make your own judgment, I have mine. Topics I have written about include annual Brain Awareness week, Mashonaland Irish Associataion in Zimbabwe, Suicide (a life sentence to those left behind); Nostalgia: Tara Hill, Co. Meath.
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