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NVIDIA commits up to $105B in residual value guaranties for 4.25GW AI campus in Ohio, with OpenAI as tenant
“NVIDIA's aggregate payment obligation is cumulatively capped at $105 billion for its initial commitment under the Agreements... relating to leases for approximately 4.25 gigawatts of IT load in the aggregate at the Portsmouth Site.”
Why it matters
This is a massive off-balance-sheet financial commitment by NVIDIA to backstop data center leases, effectively making NVIDIA a credit provider to OpenAI and materially changing its risk profile and revenue-assurance model for selling compute.
Investment implication
Bullish for NVDA demand visibility but adds contingent liability risk tied to OpenAI's creditworthiness; the guaranteed-tenant structure suggests NVIDIA is financing the AI buildout to lock in DSX platform deployments.