Jensen Huang's $75M gift to Vanderbilt argues art decides what technology is for | Fortune

The $75 million gift to establish an art, architecture and design college is the largest Huang has ever made to a university.

Jensen Huang has been on a bit of a philanthropic streak, having donated one of his iconic leather jackets to raise nearly $1 million for the Edge Institute, a nonprofit that brings together people working in tech, science, culture, and society to live together in pop-up villages and work on experiments. Now the Nvidia CEO and his wife, Lori, are making a somewhat unexpected turn, donating $75 million to Vanderbilt University for its art, architecture, and design San Francisco campus. It might seem odd for one of the world’s most prominent technology leaders to donate to an art school, but…

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