{"id":616710,"date":"2025-12-06T21:44:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T21:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/616710\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T21:44:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T21:44:13","slug":"nvidia-ceo-says-u-s-data-centers-take-3-years-but-china-can-build-a-hospital-in-a-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/616710\/","title":{"rendered":"Nvidia CEO says U.S. data centers take 3 years, but China ‘can build a hospital in a weekend’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nvidia<\/a> CEO Jensen Huang said China has an AI infrastructure advantage over the U.S., namely in construction and energy.<\/p>\n

While the U.S. retains an edge on AI chips, he warned China can build large projects at staggering speeds.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you want to build a data center here in the United States from breaking ground to standing up a AI supercomputer is probably about three years,\u201d Huang told<\/a> Center for Strategic and International Studies President John Hamre in late November. \u201cThey can build a hospital in a weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n

The speed at which China can build infrastructure is just one of his concerns. He also worries about the countries\u2019 comparative energy capacity to support the AI boom.<\/p>\n

China has \u201ctwice as much energy as we have as a nation, and our economy is larger than theirs. Makes no sense to me,\u201d Huang said.<\/p>\n

He added that China\u2019s energy capacity continues to grow \u201cstraight up\u201d, while the U.S.\u2019s remains relatively flat.<\/p>\n

Still, Huang maintained that Nvidia is \u201cgenerations ahead\u201d of China on AI chip technology to support the demand for the tech and semiconductor manufacturing process.<\/p>\n

But he warned against complacency on this front, adding that \u201canybody who thinks China can\u2019t manufacture is missing a big idea.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yet Huang is hopeful about Nvidia\u2019s future, noting President Donald Trump\u2019s push to reshore<\/a> manufacturing jobs and spur<\/a> AI investments.<\/p>\n

\u2018Insatiable AI demand\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

Early last month, Huang made headlines by predicting China would win the AI race<\/a>\u2014a message he amended soon thereafter, saying the country was \u201cnanoseconds behind America\u201d in the race in a statement<\/a> shared to his company\u2019s X<\/a> account.<\/p>\n

Nvidia is just one of the big tech companies pouring billions of dollars into a data center buildout in the U.S., which experts tell Fortune could amount to over $100 billion in the next year alone.<\/p>\n

Raul Martynek, the CEO of DataBank, a company that contracts with tech giants to construct data centers, said the average cost of a data center is $10 million to $15 million per megawatt (MW), and a typical data centers on the smaller side requires 40 MW.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the U.S., we think there will be 5 to 7 gigawatts brought online in the coming year to support this seemingly insatiable AI demand,\u201d Martynek said.<\/p>\n

This shakes out to $50 billion on the low end, and $105 billion on the high end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said China has an AI infrastructure advantage over the U.S., namely in construction and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3163],"tags":[323,1942,51,17112,1395,105909,32054,32,132223,1234,3181,3359,326,140138,22508,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-616710","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-chief-executive-officer-ceo","12":"tag-china","13":"tag-corporate-leadership","14":"tag-data-centers","15":"tag-donald-trump","16":"tag-enterprise-technology","17":"tag-government","18":"tag-leadership","19":"tag-nvidia","20":"tag-tech","21":"tag-tech-companies","22":"tag-tech-stocks","23":"tag-technology","24":"tag-uk","25":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}