Data center campus
PORTS-Pike Technology Campus (SB Energy / OpenAI)
PORTS-Pike Technology Campus is an announced AI data center campus. 10 GW of capacity has been announced; none is energized yet. The gap is what this page tracks: what is claimed versus what is actually built, each figure dated and sourced.
Announced · Federal DOE land · PJM · Piketon, Ohio, United States
Capacity: announced vs energized
Announced-to-energized gap: 10 GW. Every figure below is a single dated, sourced claim. Current best per series resolves by evidence tier, then date. See the methodology.
| Source | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Announced | 10 GW | 2026-08-17 | claimed | journalist report |
| Contracted | 4.25 GW | 2026-08-17 | reported | journalist report |
| Energized | 0 GW | 2026-08-17 | reported | journalist report |
The deal
- developer
- SB Energy · SoftBank Group subsidiary; builds and operates the campus.
- tenant
- OpenAI · 20-year anchor lease.
- chip supplier
- Nvidia · Exclusive AI-compute provider to the site.
- guarantor
- Nvidia · Up to $105B conditional guarantee of OpenAI's lease + power-payment obligations.
- investor
- Nvidia · $1.5B equity in SB Energy.
- grid operator
- PJM Interconnection · The campus sits in PJM territory (subject to FERC's June 2026 large-load interconnection show-cause order).
Power
- Power source
- behind the meter gas
- Grid operator
- PJM
- Interconnection
PORTS-Pike gas-fired generation, 9.20 GW gas, Announced. 9.2 GW of new gas-fired power envisioned to power the campus; unbuilt. U.S. officials say Japan would fund it under a 2025 trade and investment deal.
Financial structure
- SB Energy / SoftBank regional grid investment
- $4.2B. At least $4.2B into regional grid infrastructure, alongside power sources supporting 10 GW. journalist report
- Nvidia investment in SB Energy
- $1.5B. To back SB Energy's evolution into a leading AI infrastructure developer. press release
- Nvidia lease + power-payment guarantee to SB Energy
- up to $105B. Conditional; per an SEC filing; initially backs the first 4.25 GW; scaled down from an originally reported $250B (later cut below $120B) after investor concern over Nvidia's risk exposure. sec filing
- OpenAI 20-year lease
- 20-year lease; rent payable once operational; total rent expected to reach tens of billions of dollars. journalist report
Sources
- NVIDIA Guarantees SB Energy's PORTS-Pike Technology Campus in Ohio · NVIDIA
- Nvidia backing $105 billion in financing for OpenAI data center in Ohio · CNBC
- OpenAI announces massive Ohio data center with Nvidia guarantee · Axios
c6de1f86-d0f5-4aa2-b82c-448149f7a8d0 · Tracked with DEPLOY's verified-vs-claimed methodology. Announced numbers are claims, not built capacity.