{"slug": "nvidia-weighs-3-billion-investment-in-softbanks-sb-energy-for-massive-openai", "title": "NVIDIA Weighs $3 Billion Investment in SoftBank’s SB Energy for Massive OpenAI Data Center Project: Report", "summary": "NVIDIA Corp. is in talks to invest up to $3 billion in SB Energy, a SoftBank Group subsidiary building a 10-gigawatt AI data center campus in Ohio for OpenAI, according to The Information. The proposed investment includes $1.5 billion upon signing and $1.5 billion at SB Energy's IPO, which is targeted for as soon as next month. NVIDIA has also restructured its financing guarantee to less than $120 billion, down from $250 billion, to mitigate investor concerns.", "body_md": "NVIDIA Corp. is in talks to invest up to $3 billion in SB Energy, a SoftBank Group subsidiary currently constructing a massive AI data center campus in Ohio on behalf of OpenAI.\n\nAccording to a report by The Information, the proposed equity injection aligns with broader, ongoing discussions involving NVIDIA, OpenAI, and SB Energy over approximately $100 billion in credit support for the facility.\n\nUnder the proposed arrangement, NVIDIA would inject $1.5 billion into SB Energy upon the signing of the Ohio data center agreement. The remaining $1.5 billion would be deployed as part of SB Energy’s planned initial public offering (IPO). The SoftBank subsidiary, which counts OpenAI among its backers, is reportedly targeting an IPO as soon as next month, hoping to raise at least $5 billion.\n\nNeither NVIDIA nor SoftBank immediately responded to requests for comment.\n\nFounded in 2019, SB Energy specializes in developing utility-scale energy and data center infrastructure designed to handle energy-intensive artificial intelligence (AI) workloads. The planned 10-gigawatt (GW) Ohio site represents one of the largest infrastructure initiatives announced to date. OpenAI is currently in negotiations for a binding lease covering the full 10-GW capacity.\n\nThe investment talks coincide with reports that NVIDIA is scaling back its financial exposure to the project. On Friday, The Wall Street Journal reported that the Jensen Huang-led chipmaker has restructured its preliminary financing terms. NVIDIA is now slated to initially guarantee less than $120 billion for the project’s buildout, down from an earlier discussed figure of $250 billion.\n\nSources indicate the scaled-back commitment is aimed at mitigating investor concerns regarding NVIDIA’s financial risk, as the company increasingly uses its robust balance sheet to back major infrastructure builds. The lower initial guarantee will back the project’s first phase, encompassing roughly 5 gigawatts of capacity, allowing NVIDIA the option to determine how to fund remaining construction phases later.\n\nProviding an official financial guarantee helps reduce risk of massive development for lenders, lowering borrowing costs for the construction and leasing phase. A final agreement on the restructured framework could be finalized as early as this weekend.\n\nSeparately, NVIDIA remains in talks to provide up to $350 billion in potential financing for OpenAI to purchase AI hardware over the lifetime of the project.\n\nThe complex negotiations follow a period of friction between the tech powerhouses. In September 2025, NVIDIA and OpenAI signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to deploy at least 10 GW of computing power backed by a $100 billion commitment from NVIDIA. That deal subsequently stalled following internal concerns raised by NVIDIA officials regarding risk exposure.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/nvidia-weighs-3-billion-investment-in-softbanks-sb-energy-for-massive-openai", "canonical_source": "https://techstrong.it/ai/nvidia-weighs-3-billion-investment-in-softbanks-sb-energy-for-massive-openai-data-center-project-report/", "published_at": "2026-08-16 16:04:10+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-16 16:11:02.576736+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-infrastructure", "ai-chips", "ai-policy"], "entities": ["NVIDIA Corp.", "SB Energy", "SoftBank Group", "OpenAI", "The Information", "Jensen Huang", "The Wall Street Journal"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/nvidia-weighs-3-billion-investment-in-softbanks-sb-energy-for-massive-openai", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/nvidia-weighs-3-billion-investment-in-softbanks-sb-energy-for-massive-openai.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/nvidia-weighs-3-billion-investment-in-softbanks-sb-energy-for-massive-openai.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/nvidia-weighs-3-billion-investment-in-softbanks-sb-energy-for-massive-openai.jsonld"}}