Nvidia's CEO Told G20 Leaders Every Country Needs to Build Its Own AI Infrastructure

Jensen Huang, chief executive of Nvidia, told G20 leaders that "every single country needs to build infrastructure" to support its own AI economy.

His argument was that being left behind is the "single worst outcome", and that fear of the technology is slowing adoption in some countries while the rest of the world continues to build.

Huang is making the case as the chief executive of the company that sells most of the hardware such infrastructure would run on, which is worth holding in mind alongside the argument rather than instead of it. The pitch to national governments is a change of register from selling to cloud providers — it treats compute capacity as something a country holds, like generation or ports, rather than something it rents.

What he did not set out, at least in the remarks reported, is what "building infrastructure" should mean for a country that cannot fund a large data-centre programme: whether the alternative is partnership, regional capacity, or simply buying access from those who have it.

Sources: Venture Capital channel, reporting Huang's G20 remarks, 3 September 2026.

> Editorial note: remarks as summarised by the source channel. Confirm the wording against a transcript or Nvidia's own statement before quoting directly.