SB Energy Chief: OpenAI Topped Crowded Field for Ohio Data Center
Dow Jones
Aug 19
1239 ET - SoftBank's SB Energy saw a "very competitive process" play out for its 10-gigawatt data-center in Ohio before ultimately signing a deal with OpenAI, co-CEO Rich Hossfeld tells CNBC. SB Energy is serving as a developer for the project, which is expected to become one of the biggest AI hubs to date. It pitched leading hyperscalers, cloud providers and frontier AI labs, Hossfeld says, and received a lot of bids. "Thats emblematic of the demand we're seeing for compute," he says. A joint bid between OpenAI and Nvidia won out, Hossfeld says. OpenAI is paying the lease and Nvidia is the exclusive chip provider, he says.
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