Nvidia Is Investing in Everything Around the AI Boom — Even Space
Nvidia is moving beyond chips, with a reported $6 billion Poolside deal and investments in Starcloud and Cloverleaf. Models, talent, data centers, energy infrastructure and even computing in space.
Nvidia sells the chips powering the AI boom. Now it is investing in almost everything around them. Even in space.
Three developments in one day show how far Nvidia is expanding beyond chips.
First, Poolside.
According to Bloomberg, Nvidia has agreed to pay $6 billion to license AI models from the coding startup. It also plans to offer jobs to more than 100 Poolside employees.
It isn’t a traditional acquisition.
Then there is Starcloud.
The company just raised $250 million at a $2.3 billion valuation, with Nvidia and Cisco Investments among the investors.
Its ambition is extraordinary: AI data centers in space, eventually targeting 88,000 satellites and 20 gigawatts of computing power in orbit.
And back on Earth, Nvidia is investing too.
It is taking a minority stake in Cloverleaf Infrastructure, which develops sites and energy infrastructure for new AI data centers in the US.
Put the three together.
Nvidia is investing in the models.
The people who build them.
The data centers that run them.
The land and energy infrastructure underneath them.
And now even the possibility of computing in space.
Nvidia became the company selling the picks and shovels of the AI boom.
These deals show it increasingly putting money into the world being built around those picks and shovels.
Is Nvidia still mainly a chip company?
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