If you want a clear indicator of the impact of information technology — and AI in particular — on the global economy, you can look no further than NVIDIA GTC. In 2025, approximately 20,000 participants will gather at SAP Center San Jose. A year later, the conference attracted nearly 35,000 in-person attendees and 187,000 virtual registrations. For Huang’s lecture, scheduled for 11:00 a.m. on Monday, March 16, attendees began lining up outside as early as 6:30 a.m. that morning.
Once a gathering place for developers and even hobby gamers, NVIDIA GTC has evolved to include modern computing geeks. This year, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang is joined by industry leaders such as Michael Dell, HPE President and CEO Antonio Neri, and Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas. The presence of US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick reinforces the increasingly close relationship between American AI and national economic and industrial strategies.
Here are our three key takeaways from Huang’s speech, as well as things IT leaders should keep in mind as they make infrastructure investment decisions in the coming year.
3 conclusions from the main address of NVIDIA GTC
These three insights together describe the direction of travel for infrastructure investment.
1. Tokens and inference are redefining the scale of AI workloads
Huang highlights the industry’s shift towards agent AI systems – machines that not only respond to commands but also generate code, create their own interactivity and solve problems with increased autonomy. These capabilities dramatically expand the volume of inference required to support deployed AI systems, driving inference workloads nearly 100,000 times higher than they were just a few years ago. In turn, the spike puts significant pressure on high-bandwidth memory at the top end of the stack, creating downstream risks for the memory supply chain.
PakarPBN
A Private Blog Network (PBN) is a collection of websites that are controlled by a single individual or organization and used primarily to build backlinks to a “money site” in order to influence its ranking in search engines such as Google. The core idea behind a PBN is based on the importance of backlinks in Google’s ranking algorithm. Since Google views backlinks as signals of authority and trust, some website owners attempt to artificially create these signals through a controlled network of sites.
In a typical PBN setup, the owner acquires expired or aged domains that already have existing authority, backlinks, and history. These domains are rebuilt with new content and hosted separately, often using different IP addresses, hosting providers, themes, and ownership details to make them appear unrelated. Within the content published on these sites, links are strategically placed that point to the main website the owner wants to rank higher. By doing this, the owner attempts to pass link equity (also known as “link juice”) from the PBN sites to the target website.
The purpose of a PBN is to give the impression that the target website is naturally earning links from multiple independent sources. If done effectively, this can temporarily improve keyword rankings, increase organic visibility, and drive more traffic from search results.