NVIDIA and SB Energy Ohio Megacampus
On 17 August 2026, NVIDIA announced a US$1.5 billion direct equity investment into energy developer SB Energy to guarantee the development of the PORTS-Pike Technology Campus in Pike County, Ohio. Under the agreement, NVIDIA is providing critical balance sheet credit support for land acquisition, high-voltage utility procurement, and civil shell buildout for a facility designed to host an initial 4.25 IT-Gigawatts (IT-GW) of server capacity, with contractual provisions to scale to 8 IT-GW. Artificial intelligence research firm OpenAI has executed a 20-year master lease agreement as the exclusive end tenant, securing the vast computational capacity to train and deploy its next generation of frontier reasoning models.
iEnvi will continue to follow developments on the project as construction milestones are announced.
References and related sources
- Primary source: nvidianews.nvidia.com
- hyper.ai
- 247wallst.com
- buttondown.com
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Published: 18 Aug 2026
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