Cloverleaf deal is latest example of Nvidia using its war chest to patch cracks in the AI bubble
It faces a growing number of roadblocks which, if left unchecked, could pop the bubble. Thus, the AI arms dealer has been forced to play a game of Whac-a-Mole, shoring up the foundations of its empire by investing its spoils into ensuring its customers don’t stop buying.The latest example of this came Friday, when Nvidia announced it’d become a minority investor in Cloverleaf. REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/c'); }); Nvidia can only sell as many GPUs as there are datacenters to put them, and those datacenters can only be deployed where there’s adequate power to support them.
- ▪It faces a growing number of roadblocks which, if left unchecked, could pop the bubble.
- ▪Thus, the AI arms dealer has been forced to play a game of Whac-a-Mole, shoring up the foundations of its empire by investing its spoils into ensuring its customers don’t stop buying.The latest example of this came Friday, when Nvidia annou
- ▪REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/c'); }); Nvidia can only sell as many GPUs as there are datacenters to put them, and those datacenters can only be deployed where there’s adequate pow
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