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China’s Got Big Plans for AI — In the Desert
A Bloomberg investigation finds China is building data centers in the remote Xinjiang region to fuel its AI ambitions — and looking to buy 115,000 Nvidia chips to power them.
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In a remote part of China's northwestern Xinjiang region, dozens of data centers rise from the desert. A Bloomberg analysis of investor and tax documents and company filings found Chinese companies plan to buy more than 115,000 high-tech Nvidia chips — chips the US has banned from being exported to China – to power these centers, which could then be used for training AI models.