What Jensen Huang has said about Data center power consumption
1 quote · 1 episode · Mar 23, 2026
Jensen Huang, Nvidia CEO who described GPUs as fungible, durable revenue-generating assets, has been quoted on Data center power consumption once in 1 episode of Lex Fridman Podcast, most recently on March 23, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Huang proposes that data centers use the power grid's idle excess capacity by accepting graceful degradation during rare peak demand.
“And so 99% of the time, our power grid has excess power and they're just sitting idle”
Lex Fridman Podcast: #494 – Jensen Huang: NVIDIA – The $4 Trillion Company & the AI Revolution (Mar 23, 2026) · Listen from 54:09
Episodes
#494 – Jensen Huang: NVIDIA – The $4 Trillion Company & the AI RevolutionLex Fridman Podcast · Mar 23, 2026
Lex Fridman interviews NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang on extreme co-design, CUDA, AI scaling laws, supply chains, power, China, TSMC, jobs, AGI and mortality.
Jensen Huang on other topics
- Technological unemployment · 4 quotes
- TSMC · 2 quotes
- Neural scaling laws · 2 quotes
- CUDA · 2 quotes
- Consciousness · 1 quote
- Artificial general intelligence · 1 quote
- DLSS 5 · 1 quote
- Technology industry in China · 1 quote