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What Drives Nvidia’s Growth?

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🗓️ 27 February 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

The tech giant is a data center business. (00:21) Asit Sharma and Ricky Mulvey discuss: - Why Wall Street is shrugging off Nvidia’s 78% yearly revenue growth. - CEO Jensen Huang’s vision for AI in the coming years. - Short sellers targeting digital ad seller, AppLovin. Companies discussed: NVDA, APP, META Host: Ricky Mulvey Guest: Asit Sharma Producer: Mary Long Engineer: Dan Boyd Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Nvidia reported, the market shrugged.

0:07.2

You're listening to Motley Fool Money.

0:08.6

I'm Ricky Mulvey, joined today by Asset Sharma.

0:23.5

Awesome, thanks for being here, man.

0:25.0

I appreciate you inviting me, Ricky. Glad to be here.

0:27.7

Well, I wanted to get you on Nvidia Day because I know you think a lot about artificial intelligence,

0:31.9

and this is the market leader. This is the leader in the space. And on the surface, if we don't

0:36.7

look at the stock reaction,

0:37.8

it seems like Nvidia shot the lights out. Year over your sales growth of 78%, almost 80%, and most of that

0:46.0

is coming from data center revenue. Make no mistake. We could and probably will talk autonomous

0:50.7

driving, gaming, robotics, but right now, Nvidia is a data center business. So let's talk about that number and talk about the growth

0:58.4

in the data centers. Where's that coming from, Osset?

1:00.5

So it's coming from two places, Ricky. First, as we all know, it's coming from the big

1:05.0

hyperscalers who are buying Nvidia GPUs, especially their Blackwell GPU complexes, hand over fists. So think big

1:13.6

companies like Microsoft, which has the Azure platform, Amazon.com, which has AWS, those companies

1:20.0

that are in the business of serving up AI to us are buying this compute. Now, the other half of that

1:26.0

group is enterprise businesses, companies

1:28.5

that may be in the Fortune 1000 or the Fortune 500. They are slowly but surely digging deeper

1:35.7

into their own capabilities to serve AI to their customers. And they're not only renting space

1:42.9

on these big clouds. They are doing this internally. so they're buying GPUs for their own purposes.

1:48.3

That's becoming a little bit bigger business over time than it was at the outset of this generative AI explosion a couple of years ago.

1:55.9

There are a few forces that seem to be affecting Nvidia right now.

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