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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Calls New Data Centers Super Intelligence Factories

September 29, 2026 at 20:09 EDT

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Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang said the data centers now being built should be called super intelligence factories, because they produce economic value rather than simply store data. At the America.gov launch in Washington on September 29, 2026, he estimated that the United States is adding somewhere between 10 and 20 gigawatts of that capacity a year, and that the work probably means about a million jobs.

SEPTEMBER 29, 2026 · NVIDIA

Data centers, recast as factories

Jensen Huang says the sites going up are super intelligence factories that turn electricity into economic value. He puts the U.S. pace at 10 to 20 gigawatts a year and the work at about a million jobs.

His yearly U.S. build, drawn to scale

Each block is 1 gigawatt. The tall column is double the short one.

10 GW

Low end

20 GW

High end

Takeaway: On an average U.S. load of about 500 GW, that yearly add is roughly 2 to 4 percent of national power use.

~1 million

Jobs he estimated, mostly construction and trades

~2–4%

Of average U.S. power, if 10–20 GW is added each year

$50–60B

What he says one gigawatt costs to build now

100 GW

AI-factory power he said comes online before the decade ends

Cost of one gigawatt, three stages

Each block is about $10 billion. Column height uses the top of each range he has given.

$30B

Earlier

$20–30B

$60B

Now

$50–60B

$100B

Ahead

$80–100B

Takeaway: The ceiling he cites has moved from $30 billion to $60 billion, and he says it is heading toward $100 billion per gigawatt.

What has to exist before the model

Huang's order of operations. He says energy is the layer that comes first.

1 · Energy

→

2 · Compute

→

3 · Algorithms

→

4 · Applications

The case for the name

• A plant that makes something, not a shed that stores it

• Construction and trade work, where he says pay has jumped

• A payroll and a tax base if host towns share in the build

The limits

• The headcount was a rough estimate, not a jobs census

• A finished site needs far fewer people than the build

• Host towns are already pushing back, and a new name does not add power

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