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AI Data Centers Are Becoming a Financing Business

The AI infrastructure race is no longer just about who can get the GPUs. It is increasingly about who is willing to finance the buildings, power, chips and long-term contracts around them. Reuters reported on August 15 that Nvidia is in talks to invest as much as $3 billion in SB Energy, the SoftBank subsidiary developing a major Ohio data-center project for OpenAI.

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