Nvidia and OpenAI Forge $100B AI Compute Partnership

Nvidia is making a strategic pivot from supplier to stakeholder in the AI arms race. The chipmaker's planned $100 billion investment in OpenAI - disbursed incrementally as compute capacity comes online - signals unprecedented confidence in AI's infrastructure demands. D.A. Davidson's top-ranked analyst Gil Luria notes current frontier models already consume 1GW of power, with single-model requirements projected to quintuple by 2030.

The 10GW compute agreement represents more than hardware procurement - it's a vertical integration play. As OpenAI scrambles to lock in scarce data center capacity, Nvidia secures both revenue streams and equity in the AI winner. 'This isn't just selling shovels during a gold rush,' observes one Wall Street quant. 'They're buying the mine.'