China plots desert AI hub with 115,000 Nvidia chips, skirting US export bans

Digitimes
By Levi LiJul 12, 2025, 6:48 pm512 ptsHotTop
China plans to build at least 39 data centers in the desert regions of Xinjiang and Qinghai, outfitted with over 115,000 Nvidia H100 and H200 GPUs. These advanced chips have been under a US export ban since 2022, prompting concerns that they are being smuggled into the country, an issue now drawing heightened…

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