Nvidia’s Huang Predicts Musk’s xAI Will Reach 1GW AI Compute
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang predicts Elon Musk’s xAI will achieve 1 gigawatt of AI compute power ahead of rivals. The company’s Colossus II supercomputer is scaling to over 500,000 GPUs, positioning it as the candidate for the first gigawatt-scale AI compute system. Nvidia has already supplied more than 100,000 GPU units to xAI’s projects. Musk aims to expand coherent AI training compute beyond 1 gigawatt to 10 and 100 gigawatts. Reaching 1 gigawatt of AI compute marks a major milestone in AI infrastructure, demanding vast power infrastructure and coordination of hundreds of thousands of processing units.
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This news centers on the AI infrastructure race, not directly on cryptocurrency or blockchain projects. While increased demand for GPUs can affect GPU pricing and indirectly influence crypto mining, there is no immediate impact on cryptocurrency markets. Traders are unlikely to adjust positions in digital assets based on Nvidia and xAI’s compute milestones. In the short term, the effect on crypto trading is negligible; long term, sustained GPU demand could marginally influence mining costs and hardware availability but remains outside core market drivers for most crypto assets.