Chinese companies are preparing to equip 39 new AI data centers — mostly in Xinjiang and Qinghai — with over 115,000 high-performance Nvidia Hopper GPUs, whose shipments to China are restricted by the U.S. export rules. Restrictions on shipments of Nvidia's H100 and H200 GPUs to China did not stop local authorities in Xinjiang and Qinghai from authorizing the construction of rather huge data centers, reports Bloomberg. Furthermore, even slowing demand for AI compute performance does not seem to slow down data center building in China.
