Nvidia bets $150 billion on Taiwan as Trump's plan to make US an AI hub backfires
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In a splashy move that signals that Taiwan remains irreplaceable to the AI industry’s short-term and long-term goals, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced Wednesday that his chip company will invest $150 billion a year to make sure Taiwan remains at the “epicenter” of the “AI revolution.”
Key facts
Last year, Huang paid $1 million to attend a Mar-a-Lago dinner, then promised to invest $500 billion in US data centers
Nvidia is currently the world’s most valuable company, making history in 2025 after becoming the first company to reach a $5 trillion market capitalization
Before Trump’s AI Action Plan rolled out, Nvidia had previously manufactured all its AI chips exclusively in Taiwan
Last October, Taiwan rejected Trump’s demands to move 50 percent of its chip production into the US or else lose US protection from a potential Chinese invasion
Summary
As the substantial investments will be used to create a new Taiwan headquarters for Nvidia, which Huang expects will drive so much AI innovation that the partnership will cement Taiwan as “the world’s tech manufacturing hub for a long time.” That ambitious project will be operational by 2030, Nvidia anticipates, after breaking ground this year. “Four years ago, five years ago, Nvidia was spending about 10, 15 billion dollars a year in Taiwan,” Huang said at a ceremony celebrating the launch of the company’s new Taiwan base.