Chip giant Nvidia has invested in data center powered land company Lancium.

Blackstone-backed Lancium this week announced a “strategic collaboration” with Nvidia that will see the GPU company invest in the data center firm and facilitate deployment of AI hardware across the latter’s portfolio.

Terms of the investment were not shared.

Under the agreement, Lancium's campuses, currently representing 4GW of leased capacity and a development pipeline exceeding 15GW of powered land, will serve as strategic deployment sites for Nvidia hardware and give its customers and partners “access to large-scale, power-ready capacity” for AI workloads.

Lancium will use Nvidia’s DSX reference designs, using DSX MaxLPS to reportedly enable up to 40 percent more GPUs within the same power budget, and DSX Flex to adjust power consumption to support grid-responsiveness.

Michael McNamara, CEO and co-founder, Lancium, said: "We have spent years assembling the power, the land, and the infrastructure expertise needed to deliver AI data center capacity at a scale the world has never seen. Partnering with Nvidia— the definitive technology platform for AI computing — ensures that every campus in our portfolio will be deployed with the industry's most advanced technology and that Nvidia's customers will have access to the capacity they need to compete and lead in the AI era."

Launched in 2017 as a cryptomining firm, Lancium aimed to colocate data centers at renewable sites, such as wind farms, and use excess capacity to power crypto and HPC hardware. The company later moved into developing large sites it calls Clean Campuses, leaving others to develop data centers on its land.

"AI factories are the essential infrastructure of this new industrial era," said Nico Caprez, vice president of global AI infrastructure growth at Nvidia. "Together with Lancium, we're enabling a new generation of gigawatt-scale, power-ready AI factories – enabling cloud partners, AI natives and AI infrastructure developers deploy the full Nvidia computing stack faster, operate more efficiently and turn energy into intelligence at unprecedented scale."

Lancium is backed by funds managed by Blackstone Energy Transition Partners (BETP) and Blackstone Multi-Asset Investing (BXMA). BETP is Blackstone's strategy for control-oriented equity investments in energy-related businesses, and has invested more than $29 billion of equity to date.

Bilal Khan, senior managing director at Blackstone, added: "This partnership with Nvidia is a strong testament to Lancium's position at the epicenter of energy and AI infrastructure – two of Blackstone's highest conviction investment themes."

The company has sites in Abilene, Childress, and Turkey, Texas. QTS and Crusoe are customers, with the latter serving OpenAI/Oracle and Microsoft in Abilene.

Last week, Nvidia took a stake in powered land provider Cloverleaf Infrastructure and SoftBank's SB Energy.