Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) benefited enormously from the increased investment in chips for artificial intelligence (AI), but news out of China is causing investors to wonder if the stock's high valuation is worth it ahead of potential risks to the massive investment big tech companies have put into data center infrastructure.

Since the start of 2023, Nvidia 's (NASDAQ: NVDA) stock has gained an astronomical 906% as of the time of writing. It's also right around its all-time high right now, but these two facts may scare some investors off. The common thought is, "Nvidia has risen so much already; how can it increase more?"

Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) stock has been getting crushed today and has plunged over 17.4% in Monday trading. This is the biggest single-day drop for NVDA since the tech selloff began in August. Why? DeepSeek.

Shares of Nvidia ( NVDA -5.29%) were sinking Wednesday. The company's stock fell 6.2% as of 2:20 p.m. ET, but lost as much as 6.9% earlier in the day. The move comes as the S&P 500 ( ^GSPC -0.39%) and Nasdaq Composite ( ^IXIC -0.

Nvidia’s stock is off to a positive start after a wild Monday. Shares of the chipmaking giant were recently up about 2%, easily outpacing the slight rise in the S&P 500. The first hours of Tuesday’s session followed a start to the week that marked Nvidia’s (NVDA) worst day in years,