FILE: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang participates in a Q&A at the company’s annual GTC developers conference in San Jose, Calif., on March 17, 2026.
Nvidia CEOJensen Huangdoubled down on living in California again last week.
At aStanford Graduate School of Businesstalk in April, Huang joined U.S. Rep. Ro Khanna and former U.S. National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster to talk about the country’s leadership in artificial intelligence and threw in a plug for California about halfway through the hourlong conversation. “I say to everybody, ‘Move to California. Don’t leave. It’s the highest taxes in the world, but it’s OK,’” Huang said.
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“The weather is great,” Huang added.
Huang’s comments came right after Khanna addressed the fear that AI would take jobs away from humans. “I think the narratives of AI destroying jobs is not going to help America,” Huang said.
The majority of jobs at artificial intelligence companies are in the Bay Area, so the plug was likely aimed at tech workers looking to move to and or stay in the Golden State.
Many California billionaires have made headlines in recent months, as a proposed billionaire tax has riled up the state’s ultra-wealthy. Some uber-rich Californians have made moves to establish a residence outside the state, including Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, whobought a property in Florida. Meanwhile, others are opening new out-of-state offices; Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin have moved some entities out of state, and prominent investor Peter Thiel opened an office in Miami.
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Huang has previously said he wouldn’t move if the tax passed. “We chose to live in Silicon Valley, and whatever taxes, I guess, they would like to apply, so be it,” Huangtold Bloombergin a January interview. “You know, I’m perfectly fine with it. It didn’t — it never crossed my mind once.”
Source: Drudge Report
