The total cost of 250 NVIDIA NVL72 servers, priced between $3.7 and $4 million each, is approximately $1 billion.
While rumours that Apple is struggling with artificial intelligence are on the agenda, it has emerged that the company is preparing to invest $ 1 billion in NVIDIA’s artificial intelligence servers.
Apple Silicon or NVIDIA?
In early 2024, there were rumours that Apple would run its AI servers on Apple Silicon chips. In June 2024, this expectation was taken a step further and it was suggested that Apple would manage its data centres entirely with its own chips. In September 2024, Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering, officially announced that Apple Intelligence servers run on Apple Silicon, a critical move for privacy.
However, according to Investor’s Business Daily writer Patrick Seitz, Loop Capital analyst Ananda Baruah’s statements reveal that Apple has made a huge investment in NVIDIA servers for productive artificial intelligence. According to these statements shared by Investor’s Business Daily, Apple has ordered 250 NVIDIA NVL72 servers. According to NVIDIA, the NVL72 server includes 36 Grace CPUs and 72 Blackwell GPUs. The company also notes that as of 18 March 2025, this server has not yet been released. The total cost of these systems, priced between $ 3.7 and $ 4 million each, reaches approximately $ 1 billion.
While rumours that Apple is struggling with artificial intelligence are on the agenda, the company
Apple is partnering with Dell Technologies and Super Micro Computer to build a massive server cluster for large-scale AI projects. ‘Apple has officially entered the productive AI game with large server clusters, with SMCI & DELL as the main partners,’ Baruah said. It is also predicted that these systems can focus on productive AI solutions such as large-scale language models (LLM).
Apple is developing its own chips, but is it enough?
It is known that Apple has been developing its own server-oriented chips for a long time. However, either this process is moving slower than expected, or Apple aims to accelerate the process by utilising NVIDIA’s powerful AI infrastructure.
In any case, this investment shows that Apple aims to be in a strong position in the field of artificial intelligence in the coming years and shapes its infrastructure accordingly. This huge budget investment in NVIDIA servers is clear evidence that Apple is taking serious steps to stay ahead of its competitors in the productive artificial intelligence race.
