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Nvidia Moves From Chips to AI Factories

Wednesday, July 29, 2026 · 9 min

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Nvidia signed leases worth up to $50 billion for Hut 8’s Texas AI campus, deepening its move from GPU supplier into infrastructure operator as AI compute demand keeps swallowing power, land, and capital.

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Nvidia signed leases worth up to $50 billion for Hut 8’s Texas AI campus, deepening its move from GPU supplier into infrastructure operator as AI compute demand keeps swallowing power, land, and capital.

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