--- title: "Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says smuggled data centres are a dead end and national security comes first" url: https://daily.dev/posts/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-says-smuggled-data-centres-are-a-dead-end-and-national-security-comes-first-bmm3prizi source_url: https://thenextweb.com/news/nvidia-huang-national-security-smuggled-chips-dead-end type: article source: "The Next Web" published: 2026-06-24T20:09:29.279Z updated: 2026-07-02T02:13:33.914Z tags: ["gpu", "nvidia"] reading_time: 4 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says smuggled data centres are a dead end and national security comes first **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told shareholders that national security takes priority over commercial opportunities, and that data centres built with smuggled Nvidia chips are unworkable because Nvidia won't provide support or repairs. He addressed the growing chip smuggling problem amid high-profile enforcement actions, including the Supermicro case involving $2.5B in servers routed to China. Grey-market prices for Nvidia's B300 servers in China have reached ~$1M, nearly double the US list price. Huang also highlighted Nvidia's financial performance — $216B in revenue and $96B in free cash flow for fiscal 2026 — and noted that AI ROI questions have been answered, citing tripled GitHub pull requests from AI-generated code. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Nvidia B300 servers sell for $1 million in China, nearly double the US price](https://daily.dev/posts/nvidia-b300-servers-sell-for-1-million-in-china-nearly-double-the-us-price-yolg9nxom) · The Next Web · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Taiwan indicts Nvidia manager over chips shipped to China](https://daily.dev/posts/taiwan-indicts-nvidia-manager-over-chips-shipped-to-china-httxlmdrb) · The Next Web · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Taiwan raids Super Micro office as Nvidia chip smuggling investigation widens](https://daily.dev/posts/taiwan-raids-super-micro-office-as-nvidia-chip-smuggling-investigation-widens-ikqbbgpfk) · The Next Web · 8 upvotes · 1 comments - [Taiwan detains an Nvidia employee as its chip-smuggling probe reaches the chipmaker](https://daily.dev/posts/taiwan-detains-an-nvidia-employee-as-its-chip-smuggling-probe-reaches-the-chipmaker-ixe0yxreo) · The Next Web · 1 upvotes · 2 comments --- Tags: [#gpu](https://daily.dev/tags/gpu), [#nvidia](https://daily.dev/tags/nvidia) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-says-smuggled-data-centres-are-a-dead-end-and-national-security-comes-first-bmm3prizi)