Nvidia wants to own your AI data center from end to end

Nvidia's CEO makes the case that AI data centers will be more efficient, more economical, and generate more revenue if you buy all the parts from his company.

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ZDNET's key takeaways 

• Nvidia showed off five racks of equipment covering all aspects of AI infrastructure.
• Nvidia argues that AI economics are better when all the parts are from Nvidia.
• Nvidia's broadening ambition includes robotics and even AI in space.

The image Nvidia suggested to the media for its GTC conference in San Jose, Calif., this week is a line of 40 rectangles representing data center server racks of various kinds. No labels, just the racks standing like a bookshelf of the complete works of Shakespeare, or, more ominously, a phalanx of soldiers.

The implicit message of the imposing wall of racks is that Nvidia, if it doesn't ...