In June 2024, Nvidia Chief Executive Jensen Huang was in Taipei for an annual computer-industry trade show. Late one night, a group of technology executives gathered at a bar. Among them was Alice Huang, then a top leader at a Singapore-based data center company. Huang said she could likely persuade the Nvidia chief to join them. “Jensen’s a great friend of mine,” she said to the group, according to a tech executive who was present. She sent a text, and a few minutes later, Jensen Huang arrived and ordered a whiskey. He held forth briefly to the gathered executives, then…

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