Jensen Huang, who cofounded Nvidia (NVDA) and still runs the company, has told investors across multiple recent earnings calls that he expects global annual data-center capital expenditure to reach $3 trillion to $4 trillion by the end of the decade, CNBC reported. On Nvidia's first-quarter FY27 earnings call on May 20, Chief Financial Officer Colette Kress said the company expects to reach that target by the end of this decade. Martin described Huang's forecast as different from the scenarios outlined by the cloud providers themselves and more ambitious in scope. Nvidia's growth supports the scale of Huang's ambitionHuang speaks from the industry's center, where he has a front-row view of its trajectory. Nvidia's market capitalization currently sits near $4.9 trillion, trading neck-and-neck with Apple, as CNBC reported.