Equating “data centers” with hosptials, as if they are in any way the same… This really begs the question, why did he not compare to building data centers in china, is it perhaps because they take just as long regardless of the location because data centers are a lot more complicated then hospitals (and hospitals are just one of the many critical services that actually depend on datacenters these days)

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang: “Data centers take about 3 years to construct in the U.S., while in China ‘they can build a hospital in a weekend’”

https://fortune.com/2025/12/06/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-ai-race-china-data-centers-construct-us/

https://web.archive.org/web/20251207000000/https://fortune.com/2025/12/06/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-ai-race-china-data-centers-construct-us/

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Nvidia CEO says data centers take about 3 years to construct in the U.S., while in China ‘they can build a hospital in a weekend’

China has “twice as much energy as we have as a nation, and our economy is larger than theirs. Makes no sense to me,” Huang said.

Fortune

And to answer my own questions:

9months to 2 years to build data centers in china.

https://www.datacenter-asia.com/blog/how-long-does-it-take-to-build-a-data-center/

He was probably thinking of this claim about hospitals: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/china-hospital-10-days/

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