--- title: OpenAI joins PORTS-Pike project | daily.dev description: OpenAI has agreed to secure roughly 8 gigawatts-IT of compute capacity at the PORTS-Pike Technology Campus in Pike County, Ohio, partnering with SB Energy,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/openai-joins-ports-pike-project-twtco8dk6 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: OpenAI joins PORTS-Pike project | daily.dev og:description: OpenAI has agreed to secure roughly 8 gigawatts-IT of compute capacity at the PORTS-Pike Technology Campus in Pike County, Ohio, partnering with SB Energy,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/openai-joins-ports-pike-project-twtco8dk6 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/tWtCO8dK6.png og:image:alt: OpenAI joins PORTS-Pike 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. # OpenAI joins PORTS-Pike project **[OpenAI](https://daily.dev/sources/openai)** · 8 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary OpenAI has agreed to secure roughly 8 gigawatts-IT of compute capacity at the PORTS-Pike Technology Campus in Pike County, Ohio, partnering with SB Energy, NVIDIA, and the U.S. Department of Energy. The project, built on the site of the former Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant, is projected to create 35,000 construction jobs through 2032 and 2,500 long-term operating jobs. OpenAI will invest $40 million in a community grant fund and provide $84 million in Codex credits to roughly 844,000 Ohio college students. SB Energy will build, own, and operate the data center, which will exclusively host NVIDIA AI compute infrastructure, under a 20-year lease to OpenAI. NVIDIA will also invest $1.5 billion in SB Energy. The first 800 megawatts are expected online in 2028. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Nvidia investing $1.5B in SoftBank data center developer behind OpenAI project](https://daily.dev/posts/nvidia-investing-1-5b-in-softbank-data-center-developer-behind-openai-project-mrlnnokea) · TechCrunch · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Nvidia is not backing OpenAI’s rent. 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