The Big Take
How a Mumbai Drugmaker Is Helping Putin Get Nvidia AI Chips
Trade-tracking data show that the Indian firm is selling top-end Dell servers optimized for artificial intelligence to Russia.
AI Servers with Nvidia or AMD chips are finding their way into Russia.
Photographer: I-Hwa Cheng/BloombergOccupying the top three floors of an unremarkable office building in northern Mumbai, there’s little to distinguish Shreya Life Sciences from the many other commercial businesses that keep the Andheri neighborhood of India’s largest metropolis humming throughout the day.
But this inconspicuous pharmaceutical company is part of a lucrative trade in leading-edge technology to Russia that has the US and its European allies worried at India’s burgeoning role as an intermediary in the sales.