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At Nvidia’s GTC conference — widely described as the “Super Bowl of AI” — CEO Jensen Huang announced that the company expects at least $1 trillion in cumulative revenue from its Blackwell and Rubin chip families through 2027. Nvidia’s stock rose only about 1.5% on the news, a surprisingly muted reaction that Gil Luria, head of technology research at D.A. Davidson, interprets as a market signal: investors now believe 2026 will be the peak year for the data center buildout, creating a contradiction with simultaneous expectations of AI-driven economic disruption.
The Prof G Markets podcast unpacks why Huang’s figure deserves to be taken seriously despite its scale. Luria notes that unlike Elon Musk’s tendency toward compressed timelines, Huang has historically under-guided — the $1T projection explicitly excludes CPUs, networking equipment, and the Rubin Ultra chip, and is backed by visible purchase orders from hyperscalers including Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Meta. Six months prior, Huang had projected $500 billion in Blackwell revenue; he upgraded that number after seeing order flow materialize ahead of schedule.
The episode also covers geopolitical context affecting AI infrastructure investment, including Trump’s delay of a planned summit with Xi Jinping as leverage to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, and what China’s position as the buyer of 91% of Iranian oil exports means for that dynamic. The discussion provides a concise read on where institutional money is positioning relative to Nvidia’s roadmap heading into the second half of 2026.
📺 Source: The Prof G Pod – Scott Galloway · Published March 18, 2026
🏷️ Format: News Analysis
