Nvidia co-founder Jensen Huang says artificial intelligence won’t be as large an employer as feared because the technology needs workers to build and then maintain trillions of dollars worth of infrastructure.
Huang said in a blog post on Tuesday that AI has become “critical infrastructure like electricity and the Internet” and that the facilities that make chips, build computers and ultimately house artificial AI “will become the largest infrastructure facilities in human history.”
“We have only just started this construction. We have several hundred billion dollars for it. Trillions of dollars of infrastructure still needs to be built,” he added. “The effort to support this construction is tremendous.”
Huang said AI data centers need roles such as electricians, plumbers, steelworkers, network technicians and operators, which he added are “high-skilled, well-paying jobs, and they’re not in short supply.”
Nvidia ( NVDA ) is one of the biggest winners of the current AI boom, as it is the most dominant supplier of AI hardware and its chips are in high demand. Its stock price has risen more than 1,300% since 2023, shortly after OpenAI released the first public version of ChatGPT, kicking off the AI race.
AI needs a “five-layer cake”.
Huang described AI infrastructure as a “five-layer cake” that includes energy, AI chips, infrastructure, AI models, and then applications.
He said the infrastructure supporting AI “needs to be reinvented” because of the way it works, as software typically retrieves stored instructions, while AI “thinks and generates intelligence on demand.”
AI is not a single model. This is a complete set.
Energy. Chips. Infrastructure. Models. Programs.
It’s a five-layer cake that’s the largest industrial facility in history, and jobs, businesses, and AI applications are growing with it. pic.twitter.com/rwxO6fdTnE
– NVIDIA Newsroom (@nvidianewsroom) March 10, 2026
“Much of the infrastructure is not yet there. Much of the workforce is not yet trained. Most of the opportunities are not yet realized,” Huang said.
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“That’s why the building is so big. That’s why it touches many areas at once. And that’s why it won’t be limited to one country or one sector,” he added. “Every company will use AI. Every nation will build it.”
Huang’s announcement comes as many companies across a wide range of industries begin large-scale layoffs, pointing to the efficiencies gained through AI.
Last month, Block, Inc. Having laid off 40% of its employees, co-founder Jack Dorsey decided to use AI in the payment company.
Social media platform Pinterest and chemical company Dow also cited AI as the reason for cutting more than 5,000 jobs earlier this year.
Goldman Sachs analysts said last month that AI-related job losses were “significant but moderate” and that the technology helped push the U.S. unemployment rate up slightly this year from 4.4% to 4.5% by the end of the year.
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