SoftBank Group is prepping to build a new AI data center in Ohio that could reach 10 GW of power demand and cost $30 billion to $40 billion for the computing infrastructure and a further $33 billion for a natural gas power plant, reports Bloomberg. When completed, the new site could be one of the largest AI data centers ever built. Furthermore, it will be powered by one of the world’s largest fleets of gas turbines, equivalent to the energy supply of nine nuclear reactors.
SoftBank yet has to disclose which hardware will power the data center, though it looks like this one will feature multiple generations of AI hardware, as the first gas turbines will be installed within a year, meaning that the first phase of the data center will run Nvidia’s Rubin and/or AMD’s Instinct MI455X-class accelerators. Meanwhile, the full deployment is expected by the end of the decade, which means that the facility will also use Nvidia’s Feynman or post-Feynman hardware and/or AMD’s MI600 or even MI700-series, though we are speculating.
