Jensen Huang says the U.S. has an incredible opportunity to help bring manufacturing back to the U.S. due to the buildout of AI infrastructure.

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang argues that America must reverse decades of manufacturing offshoring by building AI infrastructure domestically, emphasizing that energy availability is the foundational constraint. He contends that creating prosperity for all Americans, not just highly educated workers, requires bringing manufacturing jobs back through the AI industrial revolution. Nvidia is helping build $500 billion in AI infrastructure in the U.S. and plans to leverage its position to make America the global AI manufacturing hub.

‘We’ve Done Our Country a Great Disservice’ by Offshoring: Nvidia’s Jensen Huang Says ‘We Have to Create Prosperity’ for All, Not Just PhDs

<p>Please correct me if I’m wrong, but doesn’t cost of labor take the majority share of manufacturing costs in industrialized nations of the west? Even if they had all the energy in the world, a factory worker in the US will never cost less than one in China (in the foreseeable future). What remains as an option is building highly automated factories, which will, in turn, not create a significant amount of manufacturing jobs.</p>
<p>I’m all in on economic growth benefiting everyone, but I don’t see this working out. I’m smelling ulterior motives from Nvidia’s side.</p>
