# OpenAI and NVIDIA Announce Strategic Partnership to Deploy 10 Gigawatts

> OpenAI and NVIDIA have announced a partnership on a scale that is hard to picture, a plan to deploy at least 10 gigawatts of NVIDIA systems for OpenAI, representing millions of GPUs. The first gigawatt is targeted to come online in the second half of 2026 on NVIDIA's new Vera Rubin platform, with the rest phased in over time. To put 10 gigawatts in perspective, that is roughly the electricity draw of a small country. The money matches the ambition. NVIDIA intends to invest up to 100 billion dollars in OpenAI progressively, releasing capital as each gigawatt of capacity is deployed. That structure ties the chipmaker's fortunes even more tightly to its largest customer, and it locks OpenAI into NVIDIA silicon for years. Deals like this reframe the AI race as an infrastructure and energy story as much as a software one. The bottleneck is no longer clever algorithms alone, it is power, land, cooling and the ability to build data centers faster than anyone has before. When a chipmaker becomes an investor in its biggest buyer, you are watching an industry rewire its own supply chain in real time.

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## Wortins' read

OpenAI and NVIDIA have announced a partnership on a scale that is hard to picture, a plan to deploy at least 10 gigawatts of NVIDIA systems for OpenAI, representing millions of GPUs. The first gigawatt is targeted to come online in the second half of 2026 on NVIDIA's new Vera Rubin platform, with the rest phased in over time. To put 10 gigawatts in perspective, that is roughly the electricity draw of a small country. The money matches the ambition. NVIDIA intends to invest up to 100 billion dollars in OpenAI progressively, releasing capital as each gigawatt of capacity is deployed. That structure ties the chipmaker's fortunes even more tightly to its largest customer, and it locks OpenAI into NVIDIA silicon for years. Deals like this reframe the AI race as an infrastructure and energy story as much as a software one. The bottleneck is no longer clever algorithms alone, it is power, land, cooling and the ability to build data centers faster than anyone has before. When a chipmaker becomes an investor in its biggest buyer, you are watching an industry rewire its own supply chain in real time.

## 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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