Once again, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang had a simple response for investors who are worried that the AI spending race might be overblown.
During the $4.8-trillion-valuation chip supplier’s earnings call on Wednesday, analysts pressed Huang on whether major cloud customers—whose capital expenditures are nearing $700 billion a year—could keep up the pace. According to Huang, it’s a no-brainer. In the new AI-based economy, compute and revenue are essentially the same thing. Without the capacity to generate AI tokens, which are the small chunks of chatbot outputs in the form of words and text, cloud providers don’t have a way to meaningfully grow.
