NVIDIA, Cloverleaf Partnering to Advance Data Center Development

Technology giant NVIDIA is furthering its support of artificial intelligence (AI) and data center construction. Cloverleaf Infrastructure, a group that supports the AI buildout by providing power sources and infrastructure for site development, on August 21 said it has entered into a strategic partnership with NVIDIA to advance the development of digital infrastructure across the U.S.NVIDIA reportedly as part of the agreement is taking a minority stake in Cloverleaf, which was founded in 2024 and raised $300 million in its first year. Cloverleaf is often considered a middleman between utility companies and data centers as the AI factories seek ways to ensure their electricity supply.NVIDIA has begun taking a larger role in financing and developing data centers that then buy the company’s AI systems. NVIDIA earlier this month announced it would invest $1.5 billion into SB Energy to support that group’s PORTS-Pike campus, an OpenAI-linked 10-GW data center project in Pike County, Ohio. Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA, said of that deal, “AI is becoming infrastructure—the foundation for intelligence in every industry—and land, power and shell have become vital in the age of AI. Now is the time to scale the AI infrastructure that will power the next industrial revolution. We are securing long-lived infrastructure for NVIDIA compute so OpenAI can deploy the most productive AI factories that can be upgraded repeatedly with each new generation delivering more intelligence and better economics.”NVIDIA will be featured prominently at the upcoming Experience POWER conference, hosted by POWER and scheduled for Sept. 28–30, 2026, at the Omni Shoreham in Washington, D.C. John Josephakis, NVIDIA’s Global Vice President of HPC, AI & Supercomputing, is a featured speaker addressing AI integration in federal energy initiatives. POWER also will host the Data Center POWER eXchange event at the same venue on Sept. 30 and Oct. 1.

‘Support AI Factory Development’

Cloverleaf on Friday in a news release said the NVIDIA investment will enable the company “to help its customers and utility partners meet increasing demand for accelerated computing.” The companies will work together “to advance the foundational infrastructure needed to support AI factory development,” according to the release. Cloverleaf already has a large AI development pipeline, and has “delivered multiple GW-scale projects to customers across North America,” according to the company.

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“AI is accelerating demand for digital infrastructure at an unprecedented scale and driving strong economic development opportunities for American communities,” said David Berry, co-founder and CEO of Cloverleaf. “This partnership strengthens Cloverleaf’s ability to identify and develop high-quality sites that provide the compute power for our country’s growth and security. Together, we will help America’s businesses and workers gain a critical edge.””AI factories are the infrastructure of the intelligence age, and land, power and shell are their foundation,” said Nico Caprez, vice president of Global AI Infrastructure Growth at NVIDIA. “Cloverleaf brings deep expertise in power and site development to create exceptional, long-lived sites for generations of accelerated computing. Together, we are accelerating the build out of AI infrastructure that will strengthen America’s energy infrastructure and power the next wave of innovation.”Cloverleaf said it will apply the NVIDIA DSX Platform to bring site, power, cooling, computing and facility decisions together earlier in the design phase. The company said this will help customers “evaluate infrastructure tradeoffs and build AI factories that deliver more useful AI output within available power, water and grid constraints.” The group said that “NVIDIA DSX infrastructure and software will help customers optimize energy use and computing capacity” at operating data center sites.J.P. Morgan Securities LLC served as exclusive financial advisor and Kirkland & Ellis LLP served as legal counsel to Cloverleaf in structuring the deal. The companies did not disclose financial terms of the agreement, but the Wall Street Journal reported that Nvidia’s investment is likely to be up to several hundred million dollars.—Darrell Proctor is a senior editor for POWER.