Nvidia and Oracle Are Planning the ‘Largest Supercomputer’ in America for Trump

Nvidia and Oracle will build the Department of Energy’s largest AI supercomputer, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced on Tuesday, at the company’s first ever GTC AI conference to be held in Washington D.C.

Huang, at one point during the reception, even asserted from Nvidia’s booth in the expo that he is planning “the largest supercomputer—AI supercomputer—in America for DOE.”

Along with the federally-funded Argonne National Laboratory, the two tech giants will build a total of seven new AI supercomputers.

“The majority of that computational power will be used for commercial applications to drive American business,” secretary of energy Chris Wright said in a press briefing following Huang’s keynote event, adding that “a significant minority” will be used towards science and national security.

Construction will begin immediately, with computing power starting to flow into the Department as early as next week, according to Wright. The first of the seven supercomputers is expected to be delivered in 2026, with the largest one coming later.

“I’m like a kid in a candy store,” the secretary said.

Wright said that he was the one that reached out to “the players in the industry” to ink partnerships to “supercharge” the Department’s scientific and national defense efforts.

The announcement is the latest in a string of collaborations between Nvidia and the government, showing an ever-growing connection between the AI industry and the Trump administration.

Trump, although missing from the conference, was practically everywhere on Tuesday.

“The original plan was Trump was going to be here,” Huang told attendees ahead of his keynote speech. Trump is instead in a whirlwind diplomacy tour across Asia.

Huang shared that he will be joining the President on the South Korea leg of the tour, where Trump is supposed to have a key meeting with China’s Xi Jinping. The meeting will be decisive for trade relations between the two countries, which has an undeniably large impact on Nvidia’s business.

Huang thanked the Trump administration repeatedly in his keynote speech on Tuesday, and ended it by shouting “Thank you for making America great again!” to the crowd of tech enthusiasts, GPU fanboys and government officials.

In a press briefing following the keynote, he thanked secretary Wright and President Trump for their energy policies.

“I’m so grateful that President Trump is pro-energy,” Huang said. “With administrations and others vilifying the use of energy, it was very difficult for the United States to win the AI race or to win any industrial race.”

AI has monstrous energy demands and gulps up insane amounts of water, often putting a strain on communities local to data centers. These AI data centers also have a massive carbon footprint, with the energy demand causing increasing greenhouse gas emissions and contributing further to climate change.

In a departure from the Biden administration, Trump is very okay with carbon-intensive energy and doesn’t necessarily believe in climate change. In fact, he has canceled billions of dollars in funding for clean energy projects, and reportedly is eyeing even more cuts.

In the briefing, Huang also repeatedly promised an all-American assembly line, something that the administration has put significant pressure on the tech giant and other Silicon Valley companies about.

“Everything from the beginning, from idea, silicon, all the way to the generation of intelligence will be here in the United States,” Huang said.

When asked about his donation to the construction of Trump’s new White House ballroom, Huang said that he was “incredibly proud and delighted to help contribute in a small way to what will clearly be a historic national monument for our country.”

Ironically though, Trump is now demolishing an actual historic American treasure, the East Wing of the White House, to make room for the ballroom.

Even the fact that Nvidia decided to start organizing a second GTC in D.C. is testament to the company’s close ties to the President and his administration. Nvidia’s GTC conference is usually held once a year in March at the heart of Silicon Valley in San Jose, California. The event is considered the “Super Bowl” of AI, so Silicon Valley is an arguably more well-suited place for it to be held than the nation’s capital, and even Huang himself was aware of the incongruity.

“This has got to be the most technical conference in Washington D.C.,” Huang said.