CHAPEL HILL, United States, Sept 2, 2026 (BSS/AFP) - Nvidia chief Jensen 
Huang urged G20 ministers on Wednesday to build more data centers to support 
the artificial intelligence revolution, and warned that leaders who talk up 
the technology's dangers risk leaving their countries behind.

Huang made the plea on the second day of a G20 meeting in North Carolina, 
where the Trump administration has corralled top AI executives to pitch their 
vision to ministers from the world's leading economies.

"In the end, what every single country will have to recognize is that (AI) is 
infrastructure, just as it's water, roads, electricity, the internet," Huang 
told ministers at the event.

"Every single country needs to build infrastructure so that you can support 
your own local economy," he said.

Nvidia is the key company behind the generative AI frenzy that has catapulted 
it to become the world's most valuable publicly traded company.

The company's graphics processing units (GPUs), housed in specially built 
data centers going up across the world, are the key components for training 
AI models.

Such facilities provide "the digital intellectual capacity to support your 
researchers and students and society and industries and startups," he said.

Huang pushed back on notions that AI posed a threat to jobs, one of the fears 
that has fueled public opposition to the technology.

"The idea that somehow all the jobs are going to be eliminated or removed -- 
that's just nonsense," Huang told the G20 technology ministers.

Work would be redefined rather than eliminated, he argued.

"The tasks are going to be automated, but our jobs' purpose remain," he said.

He warned that countries would suffer if leaders "talk about the technology 
with fear, with uncertainty."

"The worst outcome is that you don't take advantage of it, that you are left 
behind. That is the single worst outcome," Huang said.

Huang also urged governments not to overregulate the technology, echoing 
similar comments by Elon Musk a day earlier.

"Don't regulate hypothetical theoretical harm, regulate actual and pragmatic 
harm," Huang said.

His appearance was moderated by US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, who 
called Huang an "American treasure."

"Your company is leading us in a path that none of us, when we were young, 
ever dreamed possible," Lutnick said.

The meeting came amid a growing backlash against the construction of AI data 
centers in the United States, an issue that has taken on political weight as 
the country heads toward midterm elections in November.

President Donald Trump on Monday attacked opponents of artificial 
intelligence data centers, saying they would end up "backwards and poor."