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Efosa Udinmwen

China offers Alibaba and other domestic giants half-price data center energy if it picks chips from Huawei over Nvidia

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  • China aims to cutting energy costs to push domestic AI chip adoption
  • Local governments now reward data centers running Chinese processors over imports
  • Major tech firms face tough trade-offs between efficiency and political loyalty

China is reportedly offering major home-grown cloud and internet companies including Alibaba, ByteDance, and Tencent electricity subsidies which could reduce energy costs by as much as half.

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