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SB Energy partners with NVIDIA on Portsmouth AI campus; optional credit support for additional 3.8GW signals expansion path
“NVIDIA also can provide credit support to secure approximately an additional 3.8 gigawatts at the Portsmouth Site, exercisable in its sole discretion.”
Why it matters
NVIDIA's discretionary option to back another 3.8GW nearly doubles the potential campus scale (~8GW total), and SB Energy (SoftBank-affiliated) emerging as a major AI power/land developer is notable for the energy-infrastructure supply chain.
Investment implication
Positive for gigawatt-scale power development players and utilities in the Ohio region; watch whether NVIDIA exercises the additional 3.8GW option as a leading indicator of compute demand outpacing supply.