Künstliche Intelligenz: Nvidia und Wall Street sammeln halbe Billion Dollar für KI

Nvidia, a leading chip company, and Wall Street financial giants aim to raise at least half a trillion dollars ($500 billion or €433 billion) for investments in artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure. This project involves attracting institutional funds to build data centers equipped with Nvidia's chip systems. Among the participating partners are Goldman Sachs, Apollo, Blackrock, and KKR. The exact timeframe for collecting over $500 billion has not been disclosed.

Nvidia is the dominant provider of chips for AI training and operation. Major cloud players such as Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Meta are currently investing hundreds of billions of dollars into expanding their AI data centers. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang stated on CNBC's US business network that the funds will benefit AI labs and startups. In recent months, Nvidia has also invested in some AI companies, which in return invest their profits back into the chip company.

Huang emphasized that building data centers consume approximately $50 to $60 billion per gigawatt of power consumption. Blackrock CEO Larry Fink stressed that the United States alone would need data centers with more than 70 gigawatts of capacity, according to current estimates. Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon acknowledged that there will be winners and losers in the AI competition, but both parties believe that computer capacity will become a significant investment category.