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Wayne Williams

China has spent billions of dollars building far too many data centers for AI and compute - could it lead to a huge market crash?

Flag of the People's Republic of China overlaid with a technological network of wires and circuits.

  • DeepSeek is just one of the many reasons China's AI growth simply didn't materialize
  • Up to 80% of new data center capacity hasn't been used according to local sources
  • Should this capacity hit the wider market, it could cause a major headache to data center developers
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