Cloverleaf deal is latest example of Nvidia using its war chest to patch cracks in the AI bubble

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Nv's new chips need new datacenters, but you can't have bit barns without power

Nvidia has made its fortune on the AI boom, but the company has a problem. It faces a growing number of roadblocks which, if left unchecked, could pop the bubble.

Thus, the AI arms dealer has been forced to play a game of Whac-a-Mole, shoring up the foundations of its empire by investing its spoils into ensuring its customers don’t stop buying.

The latest example of this came Friday, when Nvidia announced it’d become a minority investor in Cloverleaf.

Founded in 2024, Cloverleaf specializes in laying the literal foundations – by which we mean the land and power – necessary to build bit barns so they can be leased by the cloud providers and model devs that actually pay the bills for Nvidia’s hardware.

Nvidia can only sell as many GPUs as there are datacenters to...

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