Nvidia Scales Back OpenAI Data Center Guarantee

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Nvidia has scaled back its proposed financial guarantee for a massive OpenAI data center campus in Piketon, Ohio, reducing its commitment from $250 billion to under $120 billion. According to reports published on August 14, 2026, by the Wall Street Journal and confirmed across financial wires, the adjustment aims to ease growing investor anxiety regarding the chipmaker heavy balance risk exposure. The project, originally structured to support a massive 10 gigawatt computing buildout developed by SoftBank subsidiary SB Energy, remains under active negotiation between the two technology giants. Under the revised terms, Nvidia will initially backstop only the first phase of the overarching infrastructure development rather than providing total coverage. Representatives for both corporations have not issued formal public statements regarding the revised financial figures, while market analysts closely monitor the evolving arrangement ahead of a potential weekend agreement signing process by corporate executives within the global tech industry today.

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