On September 23, 2025, NVIDIA and OpenAI announced a strategic partnership with plans to deploy AI data centers with a capacity of at least 10 gigawatts. NVIDIA will invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI in phases, with the first 1-gigawatt facility expected to go online in the second half of 2026. In response to an X user's inquiry about the impact of this collaboration on xAI, Musk stated that xAI will be the first company to bring 1 gigawatt, 10 gigawatts, 100 gigawatts, and even 1 terawatt of coherent training computing online.