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Nvidia Downsizes Plans for $250 Billion Guarantee of OpenAI Data Center
Nvidia reduced its financial guarantee for a new OpenAI data center project from $250 billion to $120 billion due to investor concerns over market exposure.
What: The project centers on a five-gigawatt data center in Ohio. While Nvidia will still act as a financial backstop for the initial phase, OpenAI must secure funding for remaining stages.
Why it matters: This reveals the cooling of investor sentiment toward the massive, multi-hundred-billion-dollar infrastructure bets required to sustain the current pace of AI model scaling.
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Nvidia and OpenAI are close to closing a financial deal for a large-scale data-center campus in Ohio. Under the deal, Nvidia would provide a financial backstop for the first phase of the project, totaling roughly five gigawatts of power. OpenAI will then have to decide later whether or how to finance the remainder. Nvidia originally planned to invest $250 billion into the deal, but lowered its guarantee to less than $120 billion to address investors' concerns about the chipmaker's risk exposure.
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