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OpenAI Eyes 10-Gigawatt Ohio Data Center Backed by Nvidia in Historic Infrastructure Push

6/19/2026

OpenAI is in talks to lease a 10-gigawatt data center at the former Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Pike County, Ohio, with Nvidia providing the funding — a deal that, if closed, would rank as the largest single-site AI compute commitment ever made.

The proposed campus would exceed the combined planned capacity of OpenAI's entire seven-site Stargate network and roughly double the Northern Virginia data center market, currently the world's largest hub at around 5 GW of capacity.

What 10 Gigawatts Actually Means A gigawatt is one billion watts of electrical power — the output of a large nuclear reactor, enough to supply a sizeable city.

Ten gigawatts concentrated at a single site has no real precedent in data center history.

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