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The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
The Energy & Sustainability Supplement
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Nvidia tells data center partners to cut China exposure, limits RTX chip sales to mainland
As both the US and China look to decouple
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Megaspeed exec with close ties to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang suspected of spying for China
Nvidia and the Chinese Embassy reject claims of targeted spying
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Bull awarded €40m to deliver HLRE-5 supercomputer to the German Climate Computing Center
System will be powered by Nvidia GB200 Superchips and Vera CPUs
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Kao Data to host CommonAI's AI Scaling Inference Lab at Harlow data center
Lab to host Nvidia and AMD hardware
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Supermicro contractor Ting-Wei “Willy” Sun pleads guilty to four counts associated with Nvidia chip smuggling charges
Charges include conspiracies to violate export controls, smuggle goods, defraud the US, and obstruct justice
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Nvidia considers $250bn backstop for OpenAI's planned 10GW Ohio data center - report
SoftBank facility is planned on Department of Energy land
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Nvidia-powered AI supercomputer goes live at Naval Postgraduate School in California
The DGX GB300 system will support weather prediction, cybersecurity, and disaster resilience and response planning applications
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Idaho National Laboratory, Nvidia, AWS launch Prometheus project under Genesis Mission
Seeks to expedite advanced nuclear development through AI
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FBI considers deploying AI LLM supercomputers with Nvidia B300 GPUs or Google TPUs
Could deploy multiple systems, from training to inference
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Supermicro's Taiwan office raided in ongoing Nvidia smuggling probe, more employees detained by prosecutors – report
Follows announcement last month that company was working with authorities to stop illegal shipments of AI servers
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AFRL unveils 14 petaflops Flyer supercomputer
System will support the US Department of Defense
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Singapore launches new national supercomputer
Aspire 2B offers 115 petaflops of compute via AMD CPUs and Nvidia GPUs
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DARPA Biological Technologies Office to lease 50 Nvidia HGX H100s for NODES program
Newer hardware can also be proposed, but must be ready in a month
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USP launches Latin America’s largest AI cluster
The infrastructure will feature Nvidia Blackwell B200 GPUs and specialized engineering from the systems integrator Scherm Brasil
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UAE launches AI efficiency pilot across Khazna data centers in partnership with Phaidra and Agility
Will see the companies deploy Phaidra's AI system across Khazna's data center portfolio
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US House Foreign Affairs Committee advances bill to give Congress AI chip export authority
Bipartisan legislation passed the House 42-2
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US introduces 25 percent export tariff on chips “important” to nation's technology policies
Nvidia H200 and AMD MI325X GPUs will be subject to the levy
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Nvidia H200 chips can be exported to China on 'case-by-case basis' - US government
Exports will only be permitted if sufficient supply of the GPUs exists in the US
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US House of Representatives pass bill to limit remote access to US AI chips
Meanwhile, Nvidia says upfront payments from Chinese customers purchasing H200s is not company policy
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Nvidia to require full, upfront payment from Chinese customers purchasing H200s – report
Customers in China will also not be able to cancel, reconfigure placements, or ask for refunds
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Trump admin plans 'US Tech Force,' a 1,000-strong workforce to accelerate AI deployment
Program gets backing from Big Tech
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Microsoft becomes first company granted export license by US gov’t to ship Nvidia GPUs to UAE
Allowed to ship the equivalent of 60,400 A100 chips, but unclear if exports have begun
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Trump says nobody “other than the United States” will have access to Nvidia’s most advanced Blackwell GPUs
Unclear what this means for Nvidia’s previously announced Blackwell deployments outside the US
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Nvidia partners with Oracle and DOE for two AI supercomputers at Argonne National Laboratory
Both systems will be powered by Blackwell GPUs
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Frustrations grow over delays to US-UAE Nvidia chip deal – report
Five months after the agreement was signed, no investments have been finalized or export licenses signed
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China’s Internet regulator tells Chinese tech companies to stop buying Nvidia AI chips – report
Companies told to cancel orders of RTX Pro 6000D GPUs
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Asus to build 250-petaflops Nvidia-powered supercomputer in Taiwan
First phase of the project slated to go live in December 2025
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Nvidia presses pause on H20 production as Chinese gov’t says chips pose a national security threat - report
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says he hopeful the issues will be resolved