Nvidia Corp. is discussing providing up to $250 billion in financing for OpenAI‘s planned Ohio AI data center, suggesting the company could be entering the business of helping finance AI infrastructure that buys its products. The project is expected to exceed $500 billion in total cost, with the first phase expected to deliver about 800 megawatts of computing capacity in 2028. Nvidia is separately discussing financing as much as $350 billion worth of OpenAI’s future chip purchases. Earlier this year, Nvidia participated in OpenAI’s latest funding round while also expanding its investment in AI cloud provider CoreWeave. More recently, reports indicated the company has begun backing loans for AI infrastructure providers purchasing Nvidia hardware, allowing lenders to finance GPU deployments with Nvidia sharing part of the credit risk. None of the reported financing discussions with OpenAI are final, and the talks could still fall apart.