Data center campus
PORTS-Pike Technology Campus (SB Energy / OpenAI)
PORTS-Pike Technology Campus is an AI data center campus developed by SB Energy in Ohio, Piketon. 10 GW of capacity has been announced; none is energized yet. The gap is what this page tracks: what is claimed versus what is actually built, each figure dated and sourced.
Announced · SB Energy · Federal DOE land · PJM · Piketon, Ohio, United States
Capacity: announced vs energized
Announced-to-energized gap: 10 GW. Every figure below is a single dated, sourced claim. Current best per series resolves by evidence tier, then date. See the methodology.
Promised online: Q1 2028. 18 months away. Claimed by SB Energy / SoftBank / OpenAI (source).
| Source | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Announced | 10 GW | 2026-08-17 | claimed | journalist report |
| Contracted | 4.25 GW | 2026-08-17 | reported | journalist report |
| Energized | 0 GW | 2026-08-17 | reported | journalist report |
Construction evidence
Dated satellite imagery of the site itself, oldest to newest, with the campus milestones that landed in each window. This is what the site looked like from orbit while announcements, permits, and energizations were dated into our ledger, so bare land, grading, and building mass tell their own story alongside the paper trail. Sentinel-2 true color, 10 m resolution, cloud-free scenes; click any frame to expand it.
Delivery paceAnnounced Q3 2026 · live Q3 2026 · 0 mo build
Dated Sentinel-2 imagery, gated to hand-verified site coordinates. Milestones synthesized from the campus's own capacity ledger, financial claims, and lifecycle events; each chip links to its source. How we source and verify it: satellite construction evidence.
Per-building manifest tied to the site polygons and imagery. When we know a building's outline we render it; when we know only its year and capacity we still surface those as first-class rows so the campus total is auditable, not a headline claim. Sorted largest-first; top 6 shown by default of 9.
Manifest totals: 1,843,869 sqft. Rolled from the per-building rows above.
Key facts
Lifecycle
Announced
Energized
SB Energy
Developer
Location
Grid
Land
Announced-to-energized gap
On the data center map
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- Announced capex
- $4.2B
- Grid
- PJM · Generation and grid built together: the campus is paired with up to 10 GW of new generation, of which 9.2 GW is gas, alongside $4.2 billion of new transmission built in partnership with AEP Ohio. The developer has committed to funding that transmission rather than passing it to ratepayers, and treats generation, transmission and compute as one coordinated build.
- Tenant
- OpenAI
- Cost per MW
- $420K/MW
Every figure is one row in the ledger below with its source. Derived rows are pure arithmetic on the rows above (not new claims). Absent lines mean the fact isn't on record yet.
In clusterOhio(141)
The deal
- developer
- SB Energy · SoftBank Group subsidiary; builds and operates the campus.
- grid operator
- PJM Interconnection · The campus sits in PJM territory (subject to FERC's June 2026 large-load interconnection show-cause order).
- chip supplier
- NVIDIA · Exclusive AI-compute provider to the site.
- investor
- NVIDIA · $1.5B equity in SB Energy.
- tenant
- OpenAI · 20-year anchor lease.
- guarantor
- NVIDIA · Up to $105B conditional guarantee of OpenAI's lease + power-payment obligations.
Power
- Power source
- behind the meter gas
- Grid operator
- PJM
- Interconnection
- Generation and grid built together: the campus is paired with up to 10 GW of new generation, of which 9.2 GW is gas, alongside $4.2 billion of new transmission built in partnership with AEP Ohio. The developer has committed to funding that transmission rather than passing it to ratepayers, and treats generation, transmission and compute as one coordinated build.
- Water
- Closed loop, no make-up water claimed. The cooling system recirculates rather than running evaporative towers, so after the initial fill the developer expects ongoing use comparable to an office building of similar headcount: sinks, restrooms, washdown and landscaping. That would be far below what the former gaseous diffusion plant on the site consumed.
PORTS-Pike gas-fired generation, 9.20 GW gas, Announced. 9.2 GW of new gas-fired power envisioned to power the campus; unbuilt. U.S. officials say Japan would fund it under a 2025 trade and investment deal.
The PJM grid demand right now: 71.7 GW (EIA-930, 2026-09-27 10:00). PORTS-Pike Technology Campus's announced 10 GW would be 13.9% of the grid's current load.
County water status: No drought in Pike County, week of 2026-09-22 (US Drought Monitor). Data centers are large water users for cooling; this is the neutral local water picture.
Why here
PORTS-Pike Technology Campus sits on federal doe land in Ohio, Piketon. It connects to the PJM grid, draws on behind the meter gas power, interconnection is Generation and grid built together: the campus is paired with up to 10 GW of new generation, of which 9.2 GW is gas, alongside $4.2 billion of new transmission built in partnership with AEP Ohio. The developer has committed to funding that transmission rather than passing it to ratepayers, and treats generation, transmission and compute as one coordinated build.. This siting summary is composed from the record's held fields, not speculation; see methodology.
Financial structure
- Nvidia lease + power-payment guarantee to SB Energy
- up to $105B. Conditional; per an SEC filing; initially backs the first 4.25 GW; scaled down from an originally reported $250B (later cut below $120B) after investor concern over Nvidia's risk exposure. sec filing
- Nvidia investment in SB Energy
- $1.5B. To back SB Energy's evolution into a leading AI infrastructure developer. press release
- SB Energy / SoftBank regional grid investment
- $4.2B. At least $4.2B into regional grid infrastructure, alongside power sources supporting 10 GW. journalist report
- OpenAI 20-year lease
- 20-year lease; rent payable once operational; total rent expected to reach tens of billions of dollars. journalist report
Regulatory paper trail
The filings and rules on record for this site and its jurisdiction, most recent first. Each is a sourced, dated artifact you can follow to the primary document.
Timeline
- Aug 2026party addedgrid_operator: PJM Interconnection
- Sep 2026Current: Announced
Sources
- NVIDIA Guarantees SB Energy's PORTS-Pike Technology Campus in Ohio · NVIDIA
- Nvidia backing $105 billion in financing for OpenAI data center in Ohio · CNBC
- OpenAI announces massive Ohio data center with Nvidia guarantee · Axios
- SoftBank's 10 GW Ohio Campus Marks a Turning Point for AI Infrastructure · Data Center Frontier
- OpenAI joins PORTS-Pike project · OpenAI
c6de1f86-d0f5-4aa2-b82c-448149f7a8d0 · Tracked with DEPLOY's verified-vs-claimed methodology. Every term is defined in the glossary. Announced numbers are claims, not built capacity.
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Cite this page
DEPLOY. (2026). PORTS-Pike Technology Campus (SB Energy / OpenAI): AI data center campus record. Retrieved September 27, 2026, from https://registry.deploy.report/datacenters/sb-energy-openai-ohio
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