Nvidia Data Center Chief: On-Prem GPU Deployments for AI Rising

When he's not fielding reporters' questions about Nvida's latest AI chips at a conference or educating a congressional committee in Washington about the importance of investing in AI research, Ian Buck is in the AI-infrastructure trenches, pushing the limits of chip design to make data centers capable of handling ever more powerful AI applications. Riding the wave of AI enthusiasm, Nvidia's stock reached a record high last week ahead of the release of its first-quarter earnings announcement. Expectations that its data center business, which Buck leads as VP and general manager, would once again report a stellar quarter drove the surge. And the group didn't disappoint, reporting 71 percent more revenue than last year. Data Center Knowledge recently caught up with Buck to ask him about the latest trends in deployment of computing infrastructure that underpins AI applications in data centers.