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Nvidia Invests $100 Billion in OpenAI to Support AI Infrastructure

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BusinessHonor - Nvidia Backs OpenAI with $100B AI Investment

Business Honor
24 September, 2025

Nvidia will invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI to build infrastructure for AI and big data.

Nvidia has made a significant investment agreement to spend as much as $100 billion in OpenAI, marking a major effort to create the infrastructure necessary to meet the exponential demands of artificial intelligence (AI) and big data computing. The agreement is centered on creating advanced data centers fueled by Nvidia's advanced chips to manage the huge data needs of AI models such as ChatGPT.

With the fast-growing demand for AI software, OpenAI is to build data centers with a total power capacity of 10 gigawatts—similar to New York City's peak electricity load. This enormous investment in infrastructure will be critical in allowing AI to scale properly since it takes plenty of computing power to digest and analyze the enormous amounts of data that AI models produce every day.

The transaction will be funded in phases, with Nvidia supplying an initial $10 billion. As the project goes along, Nvidia will add more money in exchange for OpenAI equity. The collaboration is a sign of growing symbiotic relationship between AI development and big data infrastructure. For AI to be more powerful and accessible, there must be efficient processing and storage of massive amounts of data, and Nvidia's new data centers and chips are part of it.

As OpenAI’s AI models require intensive compute resources, the company has faced challenges in meeting the increasing demand. The partnership with Nvidia aims to address these constraints by securing the necessary big data infrastructure to support upcoming, data-heavy product launches. The partnership predicts a new dawn for AI and big data, with infrastructure spending set to increase exponentially as players such as OpenAI and Nvidia compete to provide the increasing world demand for superior data processing and AI capability.