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Cloverleaf deal is latest example of Nvidia using its war chest to patch cracks in the AI bubble

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Cloverleaf deal is latest example of Nvidia using its war chest to patch cracks in the AI bubble

Nvidia, a company built on the AI boom, faces challenges that could burst the bubble. To address these, the company has been investing its profits into ensuring its customers keep purchasing its products. Recently, Nvidia became a minority investor in Cloverleaf, a company focusing on the infrastructure required to build datacenters for AI training and inference.

Cloverleaf specializes in land and power acquisition, which is crucial for deploying Nvidia's increasingly power-hungry GPUs. Liquid-cooled datacenters, necessary for Nvidia's latest Blackwell generation GPUs, are more complex and expensive to construct than their air-cooled counterparts. Nvidia is also investing in model developers and neocloud partners, helping them secure financing or investing directly in their businesses.

This investment in Cloverleaf allows Nvidia to gain greater control over the datacenter build process and ensure its GPUs can be deployed seamlessly.

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