"We Know Some Will Call This Circular Financing" - NVIDIA

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NVIDIA reported $96.2 billion in quarterly revenue while backing AI customers and a $105 billion OpenAI data-center project.

NVIDIA reported $96.2 billion in quarterly revenue, up 106% year over year, with a 75% gross margin; data centers generated $89 billion, while gaming was folded into a much smaller Edge category. The video questions NVIDIA’s claim that its AI spending creates a “virtuous cycle,” noting GPU rental prices, uncertain AI returns, and investments or financial support for customers including OpenAI. NVIDIA’s supply commitments jumped from $119 billion to $279 billion, largely for memory, as shortages push up costs and threaten consumer sales. The analysis also details a proposed Ohio data center tied to OpenAI, backed by NVIDIA, and the companies’ overlapping financial interests. It covers Taiwan’s indictment of nine people, including an NVIDIA manager, over alleged chip smuggling to China, Jensen Huang’s close engagement with President Trump, and NVIDIA’s nearly $13 billion acquisition of Hugging Face.

Chapters

1. 0:00Circular Financing: 70% Fiscal 2028 Growth and $89 Billion in Data Center Revenue
2. 4:20GPU Rental Price Per Hour: H100 at $2.35 and Blackwell Pro 6000 at $16,000
3. 8:00There's No ROI on AI: OpenAI's 12-Gigawatt Commitment and Huang's Under-One-Year Claim
4. 12:10Rentability of NVIDIA GPUs: $48.7 Billion Hyperscale and $40.3 Billion Other Data Center Revenue
5. 16:03Embarrassed About Gaming: $7.3 Billion Edge Revenue and Gaming Hidden from Reporting
6. 20:11NVIDIA's Commitments: $279 Billion in Supply Deals, Mostly for Memory
7. 23:01Jensen Sucks Up to Trump: Data Center Advocacy and NVIDIA's $30 Billion OpenAI Investment
8. 27:40Sam Altman Has a Plan TM: OpenAI's 4.25-Gigawatt Ohio Data Center and AI Platform Strategy
9. 30:29It’s Not a Circle: NVIDIA’s Ohio Backstop Links SB Energy, SoftBank, and OpenAI
10. 32:57More GPU Smuggling: Taiwan Case Cites 130 NVIDIA B100 Servers
11. 35:47NVIDIA’s Investments: $12.9 Billion Hugging Face Deal and Open-Platform Pledge
12. 38:25Conclusion: Jensen Huang Says Compute Equals GDP, Putting NVIDIA at the Economy’s Center

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