
Yet the story of Nvidia is not merely one of numbers. It is a fable of silicon and ambition, where graphics processing units (GPUs) became the modern-day alchemists, transmuting data into gold. These chips, with their feverish parallel computations, were the muscle behind generative AI models, their clusters humming like choirs in a cathedral of code. When a data center ordered hundreds of thousands of them, it was as if the gods had decided to auction off their own divine calculations. Nvidia’s management, with the confidence of soothsayers, claimed 50% of the cost for a gigawatt AI factory-a share that, though it excluded the cost of land and bricks, still gleamed like a treasure map in the dim light of boardroom meetings.