Nvidia pledges to build its own factories in the U.S. for the first time to make AI supercomputers

Nvidia said it is working with its manufacturing partners to design and build factories that, for the first time, will produce Nvidia AI supercomputers entirely in the U.S.

Together with leading manufacturing partners, the company has commissioned more than a million square feet of manufacturing space to build and test Nvidia Blackwell chips in Arizona and AI supercomputers in Texas.

Nvidia’s ecosystem partners will spend $500 million on the AI infrastructure. The Santa Clara, California-based company, which has been leading the development of AI chips and the ecosystem around them, declined to say if it will own and operate the factories. It also isn’t saying how many jobs it will create in the regions.

The move isn’t a surprise given the political climate set by the Trump administration. And Nvidia’s key supplier, Taiwan’s TSMC, has been preparing to manufacture chips in the U.S ...