# OpenAI and NVIDIA Announce Strategic Partnership to Deploy 10 Gigawatts of NVIDIA Systems

> OpenAI and Nvidia have unveiled one of the largest infrastructure commitments of the AI era: a partnership to deploy at least 10 gigawatts of data centers, packed with millions of GPUs, with Nvidia investing up to $100 billion in OpenAI progressively as each gigawatt comes online. The first gigawatt is targeted for the second half of 2026 on Nvidia's Vera Rubin platform. The structure is notable in itself. Nvidia is effectively funding its biggest customer to buy more of its own chips, with Microsoft, Oracle, SoftBank, and the Stargate partners all in the mix, and the two companies co-optimizing their model and hardware roadmaps. Ten gigawatts is a staggering amount of power, comparable to the output of several large nuclear plants, and it makes the sheer scale of the current buildout hard to ignore. It also deepens a circular dependency at the center of the industry, where the same handful of players increasingly supply the money, the chips, and the demand all at once.

_Section: [Daily AI Updates](https://www.wortins.com/daily-ai) · Source: NVIDIA Newsroom · Published Friday, August 7, 2026_

## Wortins' read

OpenAI and Nvidia have unveiled one of the largest infrastructure commitments of the AI era: a partnership to deploy at least 10 gigawatts of data centers, packed with millions of GPUs, with Nvidia investing up to $100 billion in OpenAI progressively as each gigawatt comes online. The first gigawatt is targeted for the second half of 2026 on Nvidia's Vera Rubin platform. The structure is notable in itself. Nvidia is effectively funding its biggest customer to buy more of its own chips, with Microsoft, Oracle, SoftBank, and the Stargate partners all in the mix, and the two companies co-optimizing their model and hardware roadmaps. Ten gigawatts is a staggering amount of power, comparable to the output of several large nuclear plants, and it makes the sheer scale of the current buildout hard to ignore. It also deepens a circular dependency at the center of the industry, where the same handful of players increasingly supply the money, the chips, and the demand all at once.

## Source

[Read the full story at NVIDIA Newsroom](https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/openai-and-nvidia-announce-strategic-partnership-to-deploy-10gw-of-nvidia-systems)

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