NVIDIA ADVANCES AI INFRASTRUCTURE WITH US $ 500BN IN FUNDING
NVIDIA has raised US $ 500bn in funding from Wall Street giants like Apollo, BlackRock and Goldman Sachs to support the further development of AI infrastructure, in particular, large-scale data centres capable of housing and operating vast amounts of computer chips for AI-powered operations. The huge investment reflects a growing trend among financial solutions to view AI computing capacity as an income-generating asset class, not just a tech product. Currently, NVIDIA holds an estimated 75 % share of the US chip market, and rental costs for its H100 GPUs have only increased in recent years. However, many industry experts highlight that GPUs may depreciate faster than anticipated as new hardware emerges, not to mention growing competition from Chinese manufacturers and the subsequent competition. Despite this, technology companies have collectively invested more than US $ 1tn in AI over the past three years, and NVIDIA’ s market valuation now has grown fivefold in over the same period, the amount now exceeding US $ 5tn. financechief. com 19