--- title: Nvidia investing $1.5B in SoftBank data center developer... description: Nvidia is investing $1.5 billion in SB Energy, the SoftBank-linked data center developer building OpenAI's Ports-Pike facility near Cincinnati, Ohio. The deal... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/nvidia-investing-1-5b-in-softbank-data-center-developer-behind-openai-project-mrlnnokea twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Nvidia investing $1.5B in SoftBank data center developer behind OpenAI project | daily.dev og:description: Nvidia is investing $1.5 billion in SB Energy, the SoftBank-linked data center developer building OpenAI's Ports-Pike facility near Cincinnati, Ohio. The deal... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/nvidia-investing-1-5b-in-softbank-data-center-developer-behind-openai-project-mrlnnokea og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/MrLNnokeA.png og:image:alt: Nvidia investing $1.5B in SoftBank data center developer behind OpenAI project og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Nvidia investing $1.5B in SoftBank data center developer behind OpenAI project **[TechCrunch](https://daily.dev/sources/tc)** · 2 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Nvidia is investing $1.5 billion in SB Energy, the SoftBank-linked data center developer building OpenAI's Ports-Pike facility near Cincinnati, Ohio. The deal secures Nvidia as the sole compute infrastructure supplier for the site and includes up to $105 billion in credit to help finance construction, which could scale from 4.25 to 8 gigawatts. SB Energy will also build a $33 billion, 9.2 gigawatt natural gas power plant on the site, a former uranium enrichment facility owned by the Department of Energy. Natural gas power plant costs have risen 66% in two years, and rising demand from data centers could triple gas prices in some regions. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### How much is Nvidia investing in SB Energy and what does it get in return? Nvidia is investing $1.5 billion in SB Energy, the SoftBank-linked data center developer building OpenAI's Ports-Pike facility near Cincinnati, Ohio. In exchange, Nvidia becomes the sole supplier of compute infrastructure at the site and will also extend up to $105 billion in credit to help fund construction of the facility, which could scale from 4.25 to 8 gigawatts. _daily.dev surfaces funding and infrastructure deals like this for engineers tracking AI compute capacity._ ### Why are natural gas power plant costs rising for data centers? Natural gas power plant construction costs have risen 66% over two years, according to BloombergNEF, driven by surging data center demand for power. SB Energy's planned 9.2 gigawatt gas plant for the Ports-Pike site is expected to cost $33 billion, and rising demand could eventually triple natural gas prices in some regions as plants compete with export markets. _Engineers weighing data center or cloud capacity plans follow energy cost trends like this on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [The Billion-Dollar Deal Reshaping Nvidia and OpenAI’s AI Ambitions](https://daily.dev/posts/the-billion-dollar-deal-reshaping-nvidia-and-openai-s-ai-ambitions-ebvdyugjr) · Medium · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Nvidia is not backing OpenAI’s rent. 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