By Rajwa Quasim
Nvidia is reportedly planning to invest $250 billion along with ChatGPT-maker OpenAI in a massive data center project. Nvidia has also announced its investment of $1 billion in an AI project by South Korean internet company Naver over the weekend.
According to Wall Street Journal, Naver will issue 7.2 million new shares to Nvidia to raise the money, making Nvidia one of Naver’s largest shareholders with roughly a 4.5% stake. The investment will help expand Naver’s AI data center in Sejong, South Korea. After the news broke out, Naver’s share jumped more than 10%. The companies said that they are in talks with Brookfield, a U.S.-based private equity firm to fund around $9 billion for the project while Naver will fund the rest.
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“Together, Naver, Nvidia and Brookfield are building sovereign AI infrastructure at the scale needed to fuel Korea’s startups and industries,” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said in a joint statement released by Naver on Sunday.
In the first half of 2027, Nvidia will provide GPUs for the AI data center of capacity 55 megawatts which later increased to 100 megawatts at a later stage. It is expected to provide 200 megawatts GPUs in 2028 and eventually expand to a gigawatt scale project.
In a separate deal, Nvidia is in advanced talks with Open AI to help finance one of the largest AI infrastructure projects. According to Reuters, Nvidia will provide a financial guarantee worth about $250 billion to support OpenAI’s plan to lease a 10 gigawatts AI data center being built by SoftBank’s energy division in Southern Ohio. In addition to the financing guarantee, Nvidia is reportedly discussing a deal worth $350 billion to finance OpenAI’s chip purchases.
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The growing scale of AI infrastructure and AI boom has attracted interests from several tech giants, including Microsoft, Google and Anthropic in Ohio data center project, says U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. He further added that the expected power of 800 megawatts will be controlled by the U.S. government and funded separately by Japan under a recent trade deal, tied to Tokyo’s pledge to invest $33 billion in a natural gas plant.
Nvidia is not just selling chips anymore. It understands the market and studies the pattern. Investing directly in data centers and artificial intelligence will help them position itself at the center of global AI boom.
Earlier this month, Nvidia unveiled its new AI model Cosmos 3 and announced partnerships with domestic Japanese tech companies, including Fujitsu, Hitachi, Fanuc, Yaskawa Electric and Kawasaki Heavy Industries.