Were data centers in #China powered by #nvidia chips? #tech

Earlier this year, a team of Bloomberg reporters went to EW, a remote county in Shinjang, China. They were there as part of an investigation that a handful of Chinese companies were building some 40 data centers across the desert and plan to power them with tens of thousands of NVIDIA chips. Chips that the US banned from being exported to China in 2022.So by building these data centers and build up the like computing power, they aim to build a local domestic AI industry that can go head-to-head with open AI ...