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Nvidia's chief says computing will need a thousand times today's energy

development2026-05-15

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Jensen Huang said computing will soon demand a thousand times more energy than humanity now generates, to which Elon Musk replied that space is the only way, while three US carriers formed a venture using direct-to-device satellites to erase rural dead zones.

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