China is building data centres to house over 115,000 high-end Nvidia AI GPUs despite Trump's ban on selling the tech

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The AI race between China and the United States of America continues, as reports surface pointing at huge data centres being planned in Yiwu, China. While Trump attempts to clamp down on the nation's access to this tech by shackling Nvidia and launching investigations to potential chip smuggling, it seems that China will continue to move forward in its own plans for AI.

WCCFtech spotted a Bloomberg report revealing the plans for the massive facility which is to be built by several Chinese AI firms with support from the Chinese government. The plans will see at least 36 datacentres established. Though only a single building is expected to house the majority of the over 115,000 high-end Nvidia AI GPUs detailed in the plans, which is where things get a little confusing.

The facility may be the biggest planned for China, but it's relatively small compared to what the U.S. has planned. Still, I wouldn't expect the United States to lift the controls any time soon. This means China is going to have to figure out some other way to access these new cards. It won't be as easy as calling Dell to haul over some racks of new Blackwell Ultra cards like what was recently installed at CoreWeave.

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