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Securing the Infrastructure of Intelligence
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Fusion42 · 22 August 2026 · Fusion42 review
NVIDIA is securing lease, power, and shell (LPS) capacity at the PORTS-Pike Technology Campus in Ohio to exclusively host NVIDIA AI factory compute, with OpenAI as the tenant, supported by a 20-year term and yielding multi-generation upgrades of AI infrastructure. This move addresses the critical LPS resource constraint faced by frontier AI labs growing faster than their infrastructure capital can support, enabling sustained and scalable deployment of AI compute.
This Wire brief sits within Fusion42's coverage of AI Infrastructure, and 13 sources have reported it between 17 Aug 2026 and 19 Aug 2026.
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You face a new type of infrastructure bottleneck—lease, power, and shell resources. Securing exclusive, long-term LPS capacity at a top site like PORTS-Pike offers a durable platform to scale AI compute beyond traditional capital limits.
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13 sources · first reported 17 Aug 2026 · latest 19 Aug 2026
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