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NVIDIA Makes $1 Billion a Day While You Just Watch the AI Hype Burn Cash

Original version · May 23, 0:30

NVIDIA’s latest financial report just dropped, and it’s essentially a masterclass in how to print money while everyone else fights over the scrap metal. Forget the buzzwords; the GPU-gods are officially the only ones winning the AI gold rush.

NVIDIA just reported a quarterly revenue of $81.6 billion, with a net profit that hit an absurd $58.3 billion. To put that in perspective, the company is raking in cash faster than most countries can spend it, with growth numbers that make standard tech giants look like they are standing still.

The real engine behind this money machine is the data center segment, which pulled in $75.2 billion. Over 92% of their total revenue now comes from powering the AI infrastructure that everyone else is scrambling to build. Even without shipping to China, the demand from cloud providers like AWS, Google, and Microsoft, combined with a massive wave of sovereign AI projects, keeps the supply lines running white-hot.

It is not just about the raw silicon; networking gear like InfiniBand grew by 199%, proving that the bottleneck for modern AI isn't just the chips, but the massive pipes required to connect them. With the upcoming Blackwell architecture and the Vera Rubin line on the horizon, the company is aiming for a trillion dollars in revenue over the next two years. They aren't just selling shovels in this gold rush; they own the mine, the road, and the bank.

Investors are betting that the appetite for compute is infinite, but history suggests that the party eventually has to end. When the bubble finally pops, the only things left standing will be the hardware giants, while the thousands of AI startups currently burning investor cash on API credits will be nothing but a footnote in a quarterly earnings call.

Source: NVIDIA Investor Relations

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  1. Lucky Comrade
    Jensen Huang is basically the new Rockefeller at this point. insane.
    +1 jokeJensen Huang is basically the new king of the silicon world
  2. Lazy Mongoose
    this is a bubble waiting to burst. once these companies realize their LLMs aren't actually generating ROI, these GPU orders will vanish overnight. it's 2000 all over again.
    +4 solidThe bubble is real, and it's going to pop louder than a balloon at a birthday party
  3. Angry Sphinx
    lol imagine buying nvidia stock now
    +1 jokeBuying NVIDIA stock now is like buying tickets for the Titanic