NVIDIA announced on August 17 an agreement with SB Energy to build the PORTS-Pike hashrate park in Ohio, with OpenAI holding a 20-year lease for the park, and NVIDIA will be the sole hashrate provider and invest $1.5 billion in SB Energy. The park will provide credit support for 4.25GW of IT capacity, and NVIDIA also holds an option for the remaining 3.75GW (totaling 8GW).