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Efosa Udinmwen

No AI GPU, no problem: AI firms from China skirt around US chip restrictions by moving petabytes of data on good ol' hard drives - but why not use tape?

An IT engineer installing a new hard drive into a server rack for cloud storage services.

  • Flying petabytes of AI data is China’s latest workaround for strict U.S. chip controls
  • Physically smuggling hard drives now bypasses surveillance and digital firewalls across multiple jurisdictions
  • GPU-rich Malaysian data centers are becoming ground zero for offshore Chinese AI training
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