By Ananya Gairola
Publication Date: 2026-09-08 02:44:00
On Monday, Nvidia Corp (NASDAQ:NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang doubled down on his view that AI computing hardware is becoming a valuable, financeable asset as rental prices for the company’s older H100 GPUs continue to climb.
Huang Calls Nvidia Compute a ‘Revenue-Generating Asset’
“NVIDIA compute is fungible, durable and highly rentable,” Huang wrote in a post on X. “It is a productive, revenue-generating asset.”
NVIDIA compute is fungible, durable and highly rentable. It is a productive, revenue-generating asset. https://t.co/cvmjaNoiK8
— Jensen Huang (@JensenHuang) September 8, 2026
His comments came in response to Ornn Exchange, which said its Compute Price Index showed the rental price for Nvidia’s three-year-old H100 had climbed 22% in a month to $3.28 per hour.
The H100 is a three-year-old training chip. Its rental price is up 22 percent on the month, to $3.28 an hour.
Every depreciation schedule assumes a chip this old only loses value. The market is paying up for it instead. pic.twitter.com/TNSqgys3vx
— Ornn (@OrnnExchange) September 7, 2026
The increase is notable because conventional depreciation models generally assume that older hardware loses value over time. Strong demand for AI computing, however, is helping some Nvidia GPUs maintain or even increase their rental economics.
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