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NVIDIA Invents A Glossy Word For Very Expensive Warehouses

NVIDIA has helpfully explained that its multi-billion-dollar AI factories are totally a sound financial investment, provided you have a spare gigawatt of power and an unshakeable belief in future corporate margins.

  • Earning capacity matters when your hardware costs more than a small nation's GDP and depreciates faster than a luxury sedan.
  • Capital expenditure hits the megawatt scale quickly, meaning CFOs will need plenty of patience and a very large line of credit.
  • The promise of fungible workloads assumes someone will actually want to rent your expensive GPUs when the hype cycle inevitably pivots.

Why should I care? You shouldn't
Unless you happen to have a spare billion dollars and a private nuclear reactor, this is just expensive marketing noise.

Read the original: Productive, Durable, Fungible: How NVIDIA AI Factories Maximize Return on Investment

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