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Episode 1 · March 24, 2026 · 15:34

NVIDIA + Elon Musk's $100B AI Plan Will Shock You

The $100B AI Infrastructure Bet: Nvidia, Musk & BlackRock


Five of the world's most powerful entities have joined forces to invest $100 billion into the future of AI infrastructure. This massive shift in data centers and energy is a definitive signal for business owners to adapt and build on this new foundation.


00:00 - Intro: The $100 Billion Plan

01:12 - The AI Infrastructure Power Players

02:12 - Why Data Centers are the Pipes

03:05 - The Massive Scale of AI Spending

04:42 - Why This Matters for Your Business

07:14 - Nvidia's Dominance and The Racetrack

08:30 - Elon Musk’s XAI and Rapid Building

11:34 - Is the AI Boom a Bubble?

Full transcript

NVIDIA and Elon Musk's 100 billion dollar AI plan will shock you. The biggest money in the world just got together and they're not buying stocks, they're not buying real estate, they're buying the future of AI. NVIDIA and Elon Musk's ex-AI, BlackRock, Microsoft, they just formed a group called the AI Infrastructure Partnership, AIP for short, and the goal is to move 100 billion dollars into AI infrastructure. Not some day right now.

Their first deal is a 40 billion dollar purchase of a company called Aligned Data Centers. It's the biggest data center acquisition ever made, bigger than anything before in the history of digital infrastructure. Let that land, 40 billion dollars for one company for data centers, and that's just a start. I want to break down what this actually means, not for Wall Street, not for hedge fund managers, for you, for your business, for your career, because what this group of companies just did tells you everything about where AI is going and how fast it's getting there.

So let me tell you what AIP actually is. BlackRock, Microsoft, and a UAE based investment firm called MGX started this group. Then NVIDIA and ex-AI joined. That's five of the most powerful names in the world sitting at the same table.

NVIDIA makes the chips that power almost every major AI system on the planet. They control 92% of the data center GPU market. If AI runs on anything, it runs on NVIDIA hardware. Ex-AI is Elon Musk's AI company.

They make Grok. They just built one of the most powerful AI supercomputers in the world in Memphis, Tennessee, and BlackRock manages over 10 trillion dollars in assets. They're the biggest investment firm on earth. Microsoft is obviously the company that bet early on OpenAI and is now one of the leading AI cloud providers.

These people don't mess around with small bets and they all agreed the single most important thing they could do right now is build more AI infrastructure. Here's what infrastructure actually means. Think of AI like water. You need the water itself.

That's the AI models. ChatGPT, Grok, Claude, Gemini, those are the water. But water doesn't get to your house by magic. You need pipes, you need pumps, you need towers, you need treatment plants.

Data centers are the pipes for AI. So every time you use an AI tool, every time you ask it a question, every time it writes something for you, every time it edits your images or helps you plan your week, that request travels to a data center. A building full of thousands of powerful chips and those chips do the work. They send the answers back to you.

No data centers means no AI. That's why NVIDIA, Elon Musk, BlackRock, and Microsoft just spent 40 billion dollars on one company. They're not buying data centers to have data centers. They're buying the pipes everything flows through and whoever owns the pipes controls what happens next.

Now let's talk about the scale of what's happening. This isn't just one big deal, this is one big deal inside a tidal wave of big deals. The four biggest tech companies, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Meta spent roughly 413 billion dollars on data centers and AI infrastructure in 2025 alone. That's more than double what they spent in 2023 and they're expected to spend between 600 dollars, sorry 600 and 700 billion dollars in 2026.

600 to 700 billion dollars in one year on AI infrastructure. Amazon alone is projecting 200 billion dollars in spending in 2026. Google is between 175 and 185 billion and Meta is somewhere between 115 and 135 billion dollars. These are not normal numbers.

To put it in perspective, the entire GDP of the Netherlands is around 1 trillion dollars. These are four companies that are about to spend more than half of that in one year on data centers and AI chips. US data center construction spending alone hit 77.7 billion dollars in 2025 which is a hundred and ninety percent year over year increase. The average monthly spending jumped from around 500 million dollars in mid-2021 to 6.5 billion dollars in December 2025.

This is all changing fast and three years ago this was like a niche conversation. Today it's the biggest infrastructure build in human history and the AIP deal of pooling 100 billion dollars together is sitting right at the center of it. Now I get the skepticism here because you're probably thinking okay cool, rich companies spending money on tech stuff. What does this have to do with me running my business?

And I hear that it's a fair question. Let me answer it with a different question. What happened to businesses that ignored the internet in 1999? What happened to stores that said we don't need a website in 2005?

What happened to local shops that said social media is a fad in 2012? They didn't just miss a trend, they got left behind by everyone who didn't. The people who win in a new infrastructure moment are the ones who learn to use the new tools first. Not the people building the infrastructure, you the person running a real business, the person who figures out how to use AI before your competitors do.

That's what this 100 billion dollar is right, actually funding. The tools you're going to be using in 12 months, the AI systems, the automation systems, the content tools, the customer service bots, all of it runs on the infrastructure being built right now and the richer and bigger that infrastructure gets, the more powerful your AI tools become and the faster everything moves. Let me show you what that looks like on the ground. Aligned data centers, the company AIP just bought for 40 billion, operates 50 campuses with more than 5 gigawatts of operational and planned capacity across the US and Latin America.

Sites include Northern Virginia, Chicago, Dallas, Ohio, Phoenix, Salt Lake City, Sao Paulo and Santiago. 5 gigawatts of power, that's enough electricity to power a major city. Now imagine what you could do with that much computing power running AI models. Right now, for example, if you run an e-commerce store, you can use AI to write your product descriptions, answer customer questions, create ads and build email sequences and all of that is useful, all of that saves time, but the models doing that today are running on limited infrastructure.

They're good, but they're not as good as they're about to become. When data centers 10x their capacity models, the models themselves get smarter, they get faster, they get cheaper to run. The things that feel like magic today will feel normal and the things that will feel impossible today become possible. So if you're an agency owner right now, for example, you might be able to use AI to write your first drafts.

Fast forward 18 months with the infrastructure build out in full swing, well that same agency owner might be running, you know, 10 different clients for one person because AI handles 80% of the work end-to-end with content scheduling, research and reporting done, right? And that's how powerful this stuff is. So the infrastructure investment is the fuel, the cars are the AI tools and they're about to get a lot faster. Now here's what NVIDIA's role in this actually means.

NVIDIA isn't just buying into AIP as an investor, they're serving as the technical advisor to partnership, right, to that partnership. They're using their expertise in accelerated computing and AI factories to shape how every single data center in this portfolio gets built. Think about that, the company that makes the chips is also designing the buildings those chips go into. They're not just selling you a car engine, they're building the roads.

NVIDIA's full-year revenue hit a record $215.9 billion in fiscal 2026, up to 65% over the year before. Data center revenue in the last quarter alone was $62.3 billion, up 75% over the same course of the year before. $62 billion in one quarter from data centers alone. This is a company that's printing money because the entire world is racing to build AI and now they're not just selling chips to that race, they're co-owning the racetrack.

Jensen Huang, NVIDIA's CEO, said it plainly. He said that AI factories built on NVIDIA's infrastructure will convert data into intelligence that will accelerate every industry, not just tech but every single industry. And then there's Elon Musk's side of this. So XAI joining AIP is a big deal for one reason.

They already know how to build fast. XAI is building its colossus supercomputer, which is a machine with 100,000 GPUs inside a shuttered Electrolux factory in Memphis, Tennessee. Now that actually took 122 days, right? So 100,000 GPUs in four months inside a factory that actually used to make refrigerators.

When Elon Musk decides to build something, he builds it faster than anyone thought possible. That's the energy XAI brings to this partnership. And now XAI has the financial backing of BlackRock and Microsoft, the chip expertise of NVIDIA, and the capital to do things at scale that makes Colossus look like a warm-up. Now let's zoom out even further.

This isn't just happening in America. AIP's investments focus primarily on the US, also on OECD countries and US partner nations. That means Europe, Japan, Australia, South Korea, the Middle East. Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed I.

Nayan, the chairman of MGX from Abu Dhabi, said that AI is not just an industry of the future, it underpins the future, right? A leader from the Middle East saying that, pouring money into it, that tells you how far this is spread beyond Silicon Valley. This is now a global infrastructure moment, like the railroad era, like the electricity era, like the internet era. And every single one of these moments created massive winners.

Not just the people who built the railroads or laid the cables, the businesses and individuals who figured out how to use the new infrastructure before everyone else. For example, the photographers who embraced digital early, the retailers who built websites when nobody else did, the creators who'd gone on YouTube before it was crowded. That window is open right now for AI. And the $100 billion AIP investment is a massive signal about how long that window stays open.

Now let me talk about what happens with the energy problem. There's one obstacle to all of this and that's power. Data centers need electricity, a lot of it, an enormous amount of it. And right now the US power grid is not built for what's coming.

That's why AIP bought in GE Vanova and Next Era Energy as partners. They're working to accelerate the scaling of energy solutions for AI data centers. GE Vanova specifically is working on supply chain planning and delivering what they called innovative and high efficiency energy solutions. So basically they're taking an all-of-the-above approach.

Gas, nuclear, wind, everything. Getting as many electrons onto the grid as fast as possible. Which tells you two things. Firstly, infrastructure race isn't just a computing race, right?

It's an energy race too. The companies that figure that out and figure out power early will win. Second, this is not a short-term problem that gets solved in six months. This is a multi-year build out.

Which means AI capacity keeps growing for years. Which means AI tools keep getting better. And what does that mean? It means the window to learn this stuff and use it before your competitors do stays open longer than you might think.

Here's a question I get asked a lot, right? Is AI a bubble? Is this like the dot-com boom where everything gets built, billions get poured in, and then it all collapses? And it's a fair thing to wonder.

Here's the difference. In 1999, the infrastructure was being built for a future that wasn't here yet. People weren't actually using the internet for much, right? The usage hadn't caught up to the investment.

Today AI usage is already massive. Hundreds of millions of people are using these tools every single day. Businesses are already freelancing and replacing tasks with AI. Freelancers are already using this to do more work in less time.

The demand is real and it's growing. S&P global CMT analyst Lurie Strutter said that the competitive dynamic among frontier AI providers like OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic is changing fast, but overall demand for AI applications continues to grow strongly into 2026. The infrastructure is chasing real demand. That's very different from 1999.

But could there be pullback? Could some companies overbuild? Of course, right? That happens in every infrastructure cycle.

Some railroads went bankrupt. That didn't stop trains from running. The people who lost in the dot-com era were speculative investors. The people who won were the ones who learned to use the internet whilst everyone else was arguing about whether it was a bubble.

Amazon, Google, the creators, the online stores, they just kept building. And that same playbook applies now. Here's what the AI profit boardroom members are doing with all of this. Whilst the biggest companies in the world are spending hundreds of billions building the infrastructure, the smart move for regular business owners is to get ahead on using it.

Right now in the AI profit boardroom, we give you weekly tutorials, roadmaps, new guides, new tutorials. We'll show you exactly how to increase your output and get results with this stuff and boost your productivity and really just automate your business step by step. Now we actually do weekly video coaching calls in there. You can join a map where you can connect with people locally and meet them in real life.

It's just an awesome supportive community full of great people trying to learn, win, and grow together. So feel free to check that out. Link in the comments description or go to the AIprofitboardroom.com. The infrastructure.

NVIDIA and Elon Musk are building is a foundation. The AI profit boardroom is where you learn to build on top of it. Let's talk about what this means specifically for the people watching this. If you run an agency, here's what matters, right?

Your competitors are going to use AI to deliver work faster and cheaper. Not in five years. Now the hundred billion dollars going into infrastructure means models get better every month. So if you're not building AI into how you operate, whatever your business is, you're going to get undercut, right?

And this is a massive opportunity for huge leverage if you understand how to use it. So if you haven't already, I would double check this and just have a look at what's going on here because you can see that all the smart money is going towards certain investments like AI infrastructure and it's a time when NVIDIA, XAR, all these companies are just growing massively. Now let me be real with you for a second. I know this can be overwhelming, right?

You're running a business, you're busy, you're already probably stretched pretty thin and then there's a new headline every single week and the overwhelm doesn't make the shift any less real though. You know you got NVIDIA, Elon Musk and Larry Fink at BlackRock and they're not spending hundred billions of dollars on a trend. They're building on the roads and the cars that drive on those roads, AI tools that you and I use every day are going to keep getting faster. You don't have to understand every piece of how it works.

You don't have to become a tech expert to get your head around this. You just have to start using it consistently in your business one step at a time. So here's the thing I want you to walk away with. When the biggest names in the world, not just tech companies but the biggest money manager on earth, one of the most powerful energy companies and sovereign wealth funds from Kuwait and Singapore, when all of them are putting a hundred billion dollars on the table for AI infrastructure, that's not a guess.

That's certainty. They know what's coming and they're building the foundation for it right now. Your job isn't to build the foundation, your job is to build on top of it and that's the opportunity in front of you right now. So thanks for watching.

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