Nvidia & OpenAI's $100B AI Play, Moon Helium Mining, and Windows 10’s Reprieve

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IT SPARC Cast

John Barger

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IT SPARC Cast is a digest of the Enterprise IT news over the last week, with insights, opinions, and a little sarcasm from 2 experts each with over 20 years of experience working in IT or for IT vendors.

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Nvidia & OpenAI's $100B AI Play, Moon Helium Mining, and Windows 10’s Reprieve

IT SPARC Cast

18 minutes 6 seconds

1 month ago

Nvidia & OpenAI's $100B AI Play, Moon Helium Mining, and Windows 10’s Reprieve

In this episode of IT SPARC Cast – News Bytes, John and Lou break down three stories reshaping enterprise IT and beyond. Nvidia plans to pour up to $100B into OpenAI, funding 10 gigawatts of new data center capacity—raising big questions about power, infrastructure, and the AI arms race.

Next, we explore a moon helium deal that marks the biggest-ever purchase of natural resources from space. A Finnish firm is set to buy Helium-3 for quantum computing and potential fusion—science fiction turning into enterprise reality.

Finally, Microsoft backtracks on Windows 10’s end of life by offering one year of free security updates, buying time for millions of organizations still running legacy systems.

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⏱️ Show Notes

00:00 - Intro

Kicking off this week’s IT digest with energy, space, and security updates.

00:58 - Nvidia to Invest up to $100B into OpenAI

•Nvidia commits up to $100B to build data centers for OpenAI.

•Target: 10 gigawatts of compute capacity—unprecedented in scale.

•Raises concerns over power, sustainability, and regulation.

•Could fast-track nuclear projects and reshape U.S. energy policy.

https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/openai-and-nvidia-announce-strategic-partnership-to-deploy-10gw-of-nvidia-systems

07:22 - Moon Helium Deal: Biggest Purchase of Natural Resources from Space

•Finnish company BlueForce signs deal with Interloon to mine Helium-3 on the moon.