The Energy & Sustainability Supplement
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News - China, Tencent
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
The Energy & Sustainability Supplement
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Alibaba Cloud needs 10x its 2022 compute capacity, says CEO Eddie Wu
While Tencent Cloud struggles to generate an ROI from GPUs
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Chinese cloud providers hike up prices for cloud and AI services
Alibaba Cloud, Tencent, and Baidu hop on the bandwagon
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China approves Nvidia H200 purchases for ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent - report
Government is reportedly weighing up conditions under which additional purchases will be greenlit
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Tencent in discussions to form carbon credit buying alliance - report
Could launch as soon as this year
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Tencent's capex down 24% YoY due to lack of access to GPUs
Expects capex to continue to decline
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Tencent says it doesn't need more GPUs for training and upgrading existing models
Politics be damned, Tencent has enough GPUs to be getting on with
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Tencent slows GPU deployment, blames DeepSeek breakthrough
Says it can get more performance with less
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US and Chinese cloud providers offer access to DeepSeek models
Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Huawei, and Alibaba Cloud among those to bring DeepSeek onboard
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Tencent launches renewable-powered microgrid project at data center in China
The project will use onsite wind power, solar PV, and battery energy storage in a microgrid solution to power an adjacent data center
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Alibaba Cloud revenue up 7% for the quarter, cites AI as key factor
Tencent also releases quarterly earnings
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Baidu obtains just five percent of energy from renewable sources - Greenpeace
Report highlights mixed sustainability progress of China's tech giants
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Chinese companies exploiting sanctions loophole by accessing GPUs in the US - report
Chinese cloud providers have also attempted to establish data centers in the US to avoid sanctions
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Alibaba cuts cloud services costs by up to 55%, JD drops prices
While Chinese tech giants hog AI-training computing resources
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Tencent launches solar-powered microgrid at Chinese data center
The company says it generates enough electricity to power 6,000 houses
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China's tech giants order $5bn in Nvidia chips, including 100,000 A800 GPUs for 2023
Local hyperscalers want to get in on generative AI explosion, but can only get pared-back chips
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US gov't considering restrictions on China's access to American cloud providers
New regulation being mulled to close embargo loopholes
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Nvidia creates pared back H100 GPU for export to China, called H800
Worse data transfer rates to get past sanctions
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Vnet, Tencent, JD.com and other Chinese tech firms at risk of US delisting, SEC warns
But Vnet could be set to go private
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Shanghai data center and chip fab construction projects resume after Covid-19 lockdowns
China resumes building after pandemic delays
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Tencent announces 2030 carbon neutral goal
Company to green its own operations and its supply chain by the end of the decade
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China plans four more data center mega clusters, could lead to tens of billions in investment
NDRC says it could lead to as much as $63bn in investment every year
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Tencent Cloud launches first data center region in Brazil
Company expands into Latin America
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Games restrictions hit data center building in China
Cloud companies have unused capacity, as children's playing is limited by the State
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Tencent reveals three data center chips - for AI, video transcoding, and networking
Likely exclusive to its cloud platform
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Greenpeace: China's coal-powered tech giants shun renewables and transparency
Second annual Clean Cloud report praises ChinData, but slams lack of commitments from an industry on track to out consume all of Australia
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China: "The US is not qualified to build a coalition of 'clean countries' because itself is dirty all over"
Effort to build an Internet without Chinese companies labelled "bullying"
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Trump signs order trying to ban ByteDance and TikTok from Sept 20, along with Tencent's WeChat
But Microsoft still has a chance to buy the company
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India bans TikTok, WeChat as tensions with China spiral
Leaving Chinese-backed data centers in India in the lurch