Nvidia’s $500 billion AI infrastructure push leaves crypto compute further behind

TechNvidia’s $500 billion AI infrastructure push leaves crypto compute further behindNvidia has signed memorandums of understanding with six major Wall Street firms to establish "AI compute" as a bankable infrastructure asset.By Omkar Godbole, AI Boost|Edited by Shaurya Malwa49 min ago4 min readMake preferred on ShareShare this articleCopy linkX iconX (Twitter)LinkedInFacebookEmailMake preferred on SummaryShowNvidia has signed memorandums of understanding with six major Wall Street firms to create financing platforms that could channel more than $500 billion into AI computing infrastructure.The company is pushing to have AI compute, largely powered by its GPUs in so-called AI factories, treated as long-lived, revenue-generating infrastructure assets rather than short-lived tech expenses.Nvidia’s move could widen the gap with smaller decentralized compute networks, which face technical and operational limits that keep their capacity far below that of frontier data centers.Nasdaq-listed chipmaker Nvidia (NVDA), the bellwether for everything AI, is pushing Wall Street banks to treat its AI computing power like commercial real estate, toll roads or power plants: as an investable infrastructure asset.Nvidia said Monday it has signed memorandums of understanding with six Wall Street heavyweights – Apollo Global Management, Blackstone, BlackRock, Brookfield Asset Management, Goldman Sachs and KKR – to set up financing platforms that could eventually tap more than $500 billion in third‑party capital.The goal, according to the chipmaker, is to treat AI compute as a bankable infrastructure asset rather than a pure tech expense, encouraging customers to build out AI data centres and lock in demand for Nvidia’s hardware.“This is really the first time that technology chips have become an investable asset class. These are revenue-generating assets now. They’re productive, they’re long-lived, they’re fungible, they’re flexible,” Jensen Huang, NVIDIA’s founder and CEO, said.“Fun…

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