For investors, the message is simple: Nvidia is committing up to $100 billion in staged capital and hardware to OpenAI's buildout -- an investment that ultimately flows back into its own ecosystem. The stock isn't cheap, but the premium reflects a level of certainty few other tech growth stories can match.

OpenAI and Nvidia are discussing an unusual way to structure their new artificial intelligence data center partnership, under which OpenAI would lease Nvidia’s AI chips rather than buying them, according to two people who spoke to executives at the companies about it.

The companies say the partnership will enable OpenAI to build and deploy at least 10 gigawatts of Nvidia systems for its artificial intelligence data centers to train and run its next generation of models.

A supply chain analysis shows the likelihood of labor shortages and a heavy reliance on foreign companies to make components for data centers and power plants

But Nvidia, in this one recent move, has shown its strength as the central player in the AI market. The company aims to invest as much as $100 billion in Open AI amid a buildout of the lab's data centers. This partnership could become the biggest profit engine in AI history -- and secure Nvidia's AI empire. Let's check it out.

Chipmaker Nvidia will invest $100 billion in OpenAI as part of a partnership announced Monday that will add at least 10 gigawatts of Nvidia AI data centers to ramp up the computing power for the owner of the artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT.

A supply chain analysis shows the likelihood of labor shortages and a heavy reliance on foreign companies to make components for data centers and power plants