The investment comes as OpenAI prepares for a share selloff that will value the AI darling at roughly $500 billion.
Key Facts
OpenAI will use at least 10 gigawatts worth of Nvidia systems for infrastructure used to train AI models (comparatively, 10 gigawatts could roughly power five Hoover Dams).
As the Nvidia systems are deployed, the chip designer will invest $100 billion into OpenAI, with the first gigawatt of Nvidia’s tech slated to go online in the second half of 2026.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told investors last month the construction of one gigawatt of data center capacity costs between $50 billion and $60 billion, with Nvidia’s chips and systems accounting for about $35 billion of that cost.
