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Companies everywhere confirm AI is happening ๐Ÿค–

Companies everywhere confirm AI is happening ๐Ÿค–

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Demand for Nvidiaโ€™s data centers is exploding. (Source: The Transcript)

Nvidia, a leading provider of artificial intelligence (AI) hardware, reported yet another blowout quarter on Wednesday.

Revenue surged 262% year-over-year to $26 billion in Q1. Data center revenue, which includes chips used in generative-AI computing, jumped 427% to $22.6 billion. Adjusted earnings per share rose 461% to $6.12.

โ€œThe next industrial revolution has begun โ€” companies and countries are partnering with Nvidia to shift the trillion-dollar traditional data centers to accelerated computing and build a new type of data center โ€” AI factories โ€” to produce a new commodity: artificial intelligence,โ€ said CEO Jensen Huang. โ€œAI will bring significant productivity gains to nearly every industry and help companies be more cost- and energy-efficient, while expanding revenue opportunities.โ€

โ€œOur data center growth was fueled by strong and accelerating demand,โ€ he added.

โ€œDemandโ€ continues to be the operative word.

About a year ago, back in June 2023, I asked a panel of BlackRock analysts if the AI story was getting ahead of itself in terms of surging stock prices. They didnโ€™t think so. BlackRock CIO Tony DeSpirito told me: โ€œThe demand is really real. ... The orders are there.โ€œ (We also talked about this at the 13-minute mark on The Compound & Friends podcast in July.)

Unlike other speculative tech booms โ€” like blockchain or 3D printing or whatever, where business leaders spoke a lot about โ€œexploringโ€ the potential โ€” companies today are actually โ€œorderingโ€ AI technology and โ€œdeployingโ€ it right away.

According to Goldman Sachs, 41% of S&P 500 companies mentioned AI during their Q1 earnings calls in recent weeks.

Many companies are discussing AI. (Source: Goldman Sachs)

And these discussions are happening across industries.

All sectors are talking about AI. (Source: Goldman Sachs)

Check out some of these anecdotes Goldman Sachs analysts flagged from recent quarterly earnings calls (emphasis added):

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