The Sixty-Nine Days · claim M14
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On July 27, six days after the first public disclosure, CNBC reported OpenAI and Nvidia in talks for a backstop of up to $250 billion so OpenAI could borrow against a 10-gigawatt campus on federal land at the former Portsmouth uranium-enrichment plant in Pike County, Ohio, built by SoftBank's SB Energy under a 20-year OpenAI lease, with a total cost put at up to $500 billion. On August 14, the day after the DXYZ wire, the Wall Street Journal reported Nvidia had cut the guarantee to under $120 billion after investors raised concerns about its exposure. On August 17 Nvidia announced $105 billion and filed the 8-K.
2026-07-27
The document
- Document
- CNBC, July 27, 2026; Wall Street Journal via Yahoo Finance and Seeking Alpha, August 14, 2026; CNBC and Nvidia newsroom, August 17, 2026; WOSU
- Dated
- 2026-08-14
- Source
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Who read it
joe, 2026-09-08, search-level across five outlets; the Aug 17 instrument itself is DOCUMENTED at M13.