NVIDIA has entered a partnership with SB Energy to develop a 10-gigawatt AI data center complex in Ohio, according to a report by Engineering News-Record.

The scale of the project places it among the largest planned data center builds in the United States. At 10 GW of planned capacity, the complex would exceed the total IT load of most existing hyperscale campuses by an order of magnitude. For comparison, typical large hyperscale facilities operate in the range of 100 to 300 MW, and even multi-building mega-campuses announced in recent years generally top out between 1 and 5 GW.

The reported capacity figure also signals the scale of power infrastructure the project will require. A 10-GW complex would need transmission interconnections, substations and generation or procurement arrangements comparable to those of a large utility-scale load zone. Industry planning for facilities of this class has increasingly paired data center construction with dedicated generation assets and grid agreements negotiated directly with utilities.

NVIDIA's involvement reflects its expanding role beyond chip supply. The company has positioned itself as a systems and infrastructure partner for AI buildouts, offering reference architectures for AI factories and working with energy developers on power planning for large compute campuses. SB Energy, the renewable energy developer backed by SoftBank, brings generation development expertise to the arrangement, which suggests the Ohio complex will be tied to new power capacity rather than relying solely on existing grid supply.

Ohio has attracted several large data center investments in recent years, driven by available land, grid access in parts of the state and state-level incentives for large loads. Central Ohio in particular has become a hub for hyperscale construction. A project of this scale would add substantial demand to the regional power system and would likely require phased delivery, with capacity brought online in stages over multiple construction cycles.

Engineering News-Record did not report a construction timeline, a capital cost estimate or a specific site within Ohio in the announcement covered by the report. Details on the breakdown of responsibilities between NVIDIA and SB Energy, the generation mix intended to serve the complex and the phasing of the 10-GW buildout remain to be disclosed.

The announcement adds to a series of gigawatt-class AI infrastructure commitments disclosed across the industry over the past year, as compute demand for training and inference has pushed data center planning from the megawatt to the gigawatt scale.

Further specifics on engineering, procurement and construction contracting for the Ohio complex are expected as the project moves toward definition.