Nvidia’s Jensen Huang thinks $1 trillion won’t be enough to meet AI demand—and he’s paying engineers in AI tokens worth half their salary to prove it

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced the company has doubled its AI infrastructure demand forecast, now expecting at least $1 trillion in spending through 2027 and predicting demand will exceed that figure. To attract and retain engineering talent amid intense competition, Nvidia is offering AI tokens (computing credits) worth approximately half of engineers' salaries. This reflects both the unprecedented capital intensity of building global AI compute capacity and the competitive war for technical talent in the AI infrastructure space.