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          "title": "OpenAI joins PORTS-Pike project - OpenAI",
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          "date": "2026-08-17",
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          "title": "Nvidia Backs OpenAI’s Ohio Data Center Buildout With $105B Guarantee",
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          "title": "Ohio, PJM to Use State Agreement Approach for 10 GW Data Center, Gas Plant - RTO Insider",
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          "title": "NVIDIA Partners With SB Energy on 10 GW AI Data Center Complex in Ohio - enr.com",
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          "title": "Data center that could require more power than all of the homes in Ohio being built in Pike County - wlwt.com",
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          "title": "OpenAI joins world’s largest data center project, brings 35,000 construction jobs to Ohio - NBC4 WCMH-TV",
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          "title": "AI’s natural gas addiction could be deadly for Ohio’s communities - Ohio Capital Journal",
          "url": "https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/09/01/ais-natural-gas-addiction-could-be-deadly-for-ohios-communities/",
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          "title": "OpenAI Locks In Lease for Huge Data Center in Ohio With Backing From Nvidia - WSJ",
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          "summary": "PORTS-Pike Technology Campus is a 10 GW data center with co located gas generator",
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          "summary": "Construction on each building expected to take between 14 to 16 months",
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          "summary": "PORTS Pike data center campus located on site of former Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant uranium enrichment facility near Columbus, Ohio",
          "source_url": "https://www.enr.com/articles/63525-nvidia-partners-with-sb-energy-on-10-gw-ai-data-center-complex-in-ohio",
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          "summary": "Bechtel and Kiewit Corp tapped to provide engineering, procurement, construction and other services for PORTS Pike",
          "source_url": "https://www.enr.com/articles/63525-nvidia-partners-with-sb-energy-on-10-gw-ai-data-center-complex-in-ohio",
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          "summary": "Project is being built at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant, a former uranium enrichment facility",
          "source_url": "https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/technology/4689837/openai-nvidia-new-ohio-data-center-largest-in-world-above-power-plant-history-ai-race/",
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