Trial starting in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Hainan

Oracle would have to stop hosting it, if it doesn't sell

A role not for the faint of heart

Company relies on Oracle for American operations

Picks up sustainability-focused investor with data center stakes

After sanctions block new AI chip imports

Highlander facility submerged off Hainan island coast

Potentially the first commercial cloud deployment of a RISC-V cluster

After A800 and H800 were also blocked

Government lays out aggressive plans for a national data center upgrade

As US-Sino relations continue to deteriorate

After Covid delayed the project by a year-and-a-half

Could get the money from Chinese government-backed entities

As tit-for-tat restrictions continue to ramp up

Local hyperscalers want to get in on generative AI explosion, but can only get pared-back chips

Made in China, designed in South Korea

No sanctions mean that it's time for the DRAM company to raise money

Worse data transfer rates to get past sanctions

Company is also a cloud provider in China

Local consolidation in land-constrained market

But the US has its own balloons with similar capabilities

But all eyes on 2023's economic turmoil

Using them to simulate its nuclear stockpile

AWS recruiters the worst impacted, suggesting a lengthy hiring slowdown