Nvidia to Invest Up to $105 Billion for OpenAI Data Center in Ohio
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$105B toward an OpenAI-leased Ohio campus pushes AI compute firmly into the realm of mega-project industrial infrastructure. For anyone building on these models, power, geography, and long-term capacity contracts are now as strategic as cloud region choice was a decade ago.
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