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Nvidia Makes Another Bet on the AI Power Bottleneck
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Nvidia Makes Another Bet on the AI Power Bottleneck
This article first appeared on GuruFocus .
Nvidia Corp. ( NVDA , Financials ), the dominant supplier of AI processors, is putting money into another part of the artificial intelligence boom: the infrastructure needed to power it.
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That helps explain why Nvidia has put money into Cloverleaf Infrastructure, a startup that is focused on building power projects for massive data centers. This is a good step because Nvidia is no longer only selling more GPUs as its growth story.
Those chips need large quantities of electricity and the businesses developing the AI data centers are already bumping into restrictions regarding grid access, power availability and how rapidly more capacity can be added. Nvidia obviously sees that problem getting bigger.
Backing Cloverleaf gives the company a means to get closer to the infrastructure side of the AI buildout and potentially help take one of the constraints off its clients. It also tells you something about where the AI boom is headed. The chips were the shortage everyone feared in the last few years. The next scarcity it may be megawatts.
That's important for Nvidia because customers can't put their systems to use, even if demand is great, if they don't have enough power to run them. So this might not be a big issue for Nvidia financially, but it fits into a much wider story. The corporation is beginning to spend not just in the AI boom itself, but in the things that need to happen to keep the boom going.