Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said trillions of dollars more will be needed to build the energy and computing backbone for artificial intelligence.

Huang sees the AI industry as a “five-layer cake” requiring total industrial reinvention, with Nvidia’s chips a particularly crunchy part of the recipe.

"We're talking about six-figure salaries for people who are building chip factories or computer factories or AI factories," Nvidia's Jensen Huang said at WEF.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said trillions of dollars more will be needed to build the energy and computing backbone for artificial intelligence.