Barclays Analyst Validates Nvidia CEO’s $1 Trillion AI Forecast as Industry Spending Surges
Barclays' top-ranked analyst Tom O'Malley has reversed his initial skepticism toward Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's bold prediction of a $1 trillion AI market by 2030. The so-called 'Godfather of AI' now appears prescient as recent data shows over $2 trillion in planned AI infrastructure investments.
Industry capacity growth metrics reveal approximately 40GW of power dedicated to AI projects, with 65-70% allocated to compute and networking infrastructure. O'Malley's analysis suggests Huang's revised $3-4 trillion market projection may prove conservative, using conversion metrics of $50-60 billion spend per 1GW or 1 million GPUs per 2GW based on recent OpenAI deals.