Nvidia takes minority stake in Cloverleaf — SkimNews
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- Nvidia announced a Friday partnership with Cloverleaf Infrastructure, taking a minority stake the Wall Street Journal reports is worth several hundred million dollars.
- Cloverleaf Infrastructure, founded in 2024 after raising $300 million that year, brokers power sources and site-development infrastructure between utilities and data center operators.
- The companies did not disclose deal terms; Reuters confirmed Nvidia now holds a minority ownership position.
- The investment extends Nvidia's strategy of directly financing the AI data centers that buy its chips — the same week the chipmaker committed $1.5 billion to SB Energy, an OpenAI-linked Ohio data center project.
Why it matters: Nvidia is now actively financing the infrastructure its customers depend on — not just selling chips but funding the power lines, sites, and grid connections that make data centers possible. Two infrastructure bets in a single week (Cloverleaf and SB Energy) show the chipmaker willing to absorb infrastructure risk to keep demand for its AI systems compounding.
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