Jensen Huang: 1GW of AI data center costs $50-60B, and 'we're building 100 gigawatts' by decade's end
victor_explore · x · 2026-09-05
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says one gigawatt of AI data center costs $50-60 billion and that "we're building 100 gigawatts" by the end of the decade — implying $5-6 trillion of kit that becomes worthless if the next AI model wants a different chip.
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