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AI Needs a Power Grid: Inside OpenAI's 8-Gigawatt Ohio Bet
OpenAI has signed a 20-year agreement for approximately eight gigawatts of computing capacity at the PORTS-Pike Technology Campus in southern Ohio. The deal turns artificial intelligence into a physical infrastructure story involving power plants, transmission lines, federal land, local jobs, water systems, chips, and a large conditional financial backstop from Nvidia. Dr. Mike explains what the numbers actually mean, why a $105 billion guarantee cap is not cash already paid, how sponsor job projections differ from measured outcomes, and which community, ratepayer, water, and climate promises…
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