On 17 August OpenAI said it has secured roughly 8 gigawatts-IT at the PORTS-Pike Technology Campus in Pike County, Ohio, working with SB Energy, NVIDIA and the US Department of Energy. The land's previous job was enriching uranium at the Portsmouth gaseous diffusion plant.
⚡ The numbers OpenAI put in writing: 35,000 construction jobs across a six-year buildout through 2032, 2,500 permanent operating roles, a $40 million community grant fund on top of SB Energy's own $40 million, and $84 million in Codex credits handed to every college student in Ohio.
Two promises aim squarely at the usual complaints. SB Energy pays for the grid upgrades and new transmission lines, so the bill does not land on Ohio ratepayers, and the cooling is closed-loop and air-cooled rather than the sort that drinks a river.
💵 The eyebrow-raiser came separately: NVIDIA is reported to be guaranteeing up to $105 billion of OpenAI's lease obligations, and putting $1.5 billion into SB Energy. A chipmaker underwriting its customer's rent is a business model, but it is not a boring one.
Piketon spent the 20th century splitting uranium isotopes for the government. Now it will split tokens for everyone else 🧾
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