OpenAI and NVIDIA Form Strategic Partnership to Build 10GW of AI Data Centres

OpenAI and NVIDIA Form Strategic Partnership to Build 10GW of AI Data Centres
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OpenAI and NVIDIA have announced a landmark strategic partnership aimed at creating one of the world’s largest AI infrastructures. As part of the deal, the two companies will develop 10 gigawatts of data centre capacity, a massive leap in scale that could redefine the availability and performance of generative AI.

The partnership will see NVIDIA providing its most advanced GPU systems – including the latest Hopper and Blackwell architectures – while OpenAI contributes its cutting-edge models and applications. Together, they plan to build an ecosystem designed to accelerate AI training and inference at unprecedented speed and efficiency.

The scale of the 10GW capacity far exceeds today’s average data centre operations and signals a new phase in the global AI race. The collaboration highlights that the future of AI is no longer just about software innovation, but also about large-scale energy and hardware investments that will shape the digital economy for years to come.

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OpenAI and NVIDIA Announce Strategic Partnership to Deploy 10 Gigawatts of NVIDIA Systems
OpenAI and NVIDIA today announced a letter of intent for a landmark strategic partnership to deploy at least 10 gigawatts of NVIDIA systems for OpenAI’s next-generation AI infrastructure to train and run its next generation of models on the path to deploying superintelligence.

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Nvidia plans to invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI as part of data center buildout
In an interview with CNBC, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said his company’s project with OpenAI is equivalent to between 4 million and 5 million GPUs.

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OpenAI and NVIDIA Announce Strategic Partnership