Nvidia has taken a minority stake in powered land provider Cloverleaf Infrastructure.

Alongside the investment, Nvidia aims to support Cloverleaf's data center development.

The projects will be based on DSX, Nvidia's reference design, a guide to building data centers that support its latest CPU-GPU racks, Spectrum-X Ethernet networking, and storage.

"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."

Cloverleaf has sold projects capable of supporting more than 7GW to data center developers, including sites in Wisconsin for Oracle and OpenAI. It claims a pipeline of more than 10GW. However, like others in the industry, Cloverleaf has faced challenges in some markets due to local pushback.

Nvidia's investment comes as the company invests ever deeper into the data center ecosystem, helping keep the industry's growth going, while tying the companies into its ecosystem.

This week, it invested $1.5bn in SoftBank's SB Energy, and provided financial backing for its massive data center project for OpenAI in Ohio.

Earlier this year, Nvidia took a 20 percent stake in Lancium, the power developer behind the Abilene, Texas, campus that Crusoe operates for Oracle and OpenAI.