<p id="speakable-summary" class="wp-block-paragraph">Nvidia <a rel="nofollow" href="https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/securing-the-infrastructure-of-intelligence/">said</a> on Monday that it will invest $1.5 billion in SB Energy, a data center linked to SoftBank and OpenAI.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The investment ensures that Nvidia will be the sole supplier of compute infrastructure at OpenAI’s Ports-Pike data center near Cincinnati, Ohio. Nvidia will also provide up to $105 billion in credit to help build the facility, which could scale from an initial 4.25 gigawatts to 8 gigawatts in size, according to <a rel="nofollow" href="https://d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK-0001045810/988230c7-dd29-466b-92dc-5cf34f65b60f.pdf">documents</a> the company filed with the SEC.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">SB Energy’s existing investors include SoftBank and OpenAI. SoftBank had previously held $5.8 billion worth of Nvidia stock, which it <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/11/softbank-sells-its-entire-stake-in-nvidia-for-5point83-billion.html">sold in November</a> to help fund other AI investments.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The data center and power developer will <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.energy.gov/articles/fact-sheet-department-energy-ensuring-affordable-energy-access-ohio-while-powering-future">build a 9.2 gigawatt natural gas power plant</a> on the site, which is land owned by the U.S. Department of Energy. The site previously enriched uranium for the U.S. nuclear arsenal and for U.S. Navy submarines.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The power plant is <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/19/softbank-to-spend-an-eye-popping-33b-to-build-huge-u-s-gas-power-plant/">expected to cost $33 billion</a>. The steep sum reflects the skyrocketing costs of building natural gas power plants, which have <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/27/data-center-demand-drives-66-surge-in-natural-gas-power-plant-costs/">risen 66% in the last two years</a>, according to BloombergNEF. </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">By the time SB Energy’s power plant and others are completed, they’ll be competing for natural gas with export markets, a confluence that could <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/14/hyperscalers-might-regret-embracing-natural-gas-if-new-forecast-proves-correct/">triple natural gas prices</a> in some parts of the country.</p>
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