Nvidia may guarantee $250bn so OpenAI can afford the data centre that will house its chips
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A proposed $250 billion financing backstop for a 10 GW Ohio campus ties chip vendor, model lab, and energy developer into a single capital stack—AI infra is becoming vertically co-financed industrial infrastructure. For operators, this means future access to top-tier compute may hinge as much on financial partnerships and geography as on cloud contracts.
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