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Tom’s Hardware
Tom’s Hardware
Technology
Luke James

Z.ai powers up a 1-gigawatt AI data center built entirely on Chinese chips, report claims — GLM developer now runs multiple 10,000-chip clusters with zero Nvidia silicon

Data center.

Chinese AI developer Z.ai (formerly Zhipu) has finished building a 1GW data center stocked exclusively with domestically made chips and has switched part of it on, Bloomberg reported Monday, citing a person familiar with the matter. The facility will train the company's GLM model family, and the source told Bloomberg that Z.ai has now built or operates several computing clusters holding more than 10,000 chips apiece. A gigawatt is enough electricity to run roughly 750,000 homes, which puts the site among the largest ever stood up by a Chinese AI lab.

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