NVIDIA sẽ cung cấp bảo đảm tài chính 25 tỷ USD cho dự án trung tâm dữ liệu của OpenAI

The Wall Street Journal reports that NVIDIA (NVDA.O) is negotiating to provide approximately $250 billion in financial guarantees for OpenAI to support a massive data center project—this would become one of the largest financial transactions in the U.S. AI boom. According to sources familiar with the matter, NVIDIA’s guarantee will assist OpenAI in leasing a 10-gigawatt (GW) data center project currently under development by SoftBank in southern Ohio. The total cost of the project—including the chips deployed within the data center—could exceed $500 billion, making it the largest data center project ever announced. The project’s electricity is controlled by the U.S. government and funded separately by Japan under a recent trade agreement. U.S. Secretary of Commerce Lutnick participated in decisions regarding power allocation. Under the arrangement, NVIDIA will provide guarantees for a series of financing instruments to bolster lenders’ confidence in the project’s financial security. Terms have not been finalized, and the deal could still fall through. The $250 billion guarantee will cover debt required for leasing and constructing the data center, but not the NVIDIA chips themselves. (Jinshi)