The war for AI dominance just got a new front of sorts. According to a new report, some Chinese provinces are now offering steep discounts on industrial power pricing to AI datacenters, with only one catch: they have to use homemade chips rather than Nvidia’s or AMD’s.
According to a data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.ft.com/content/cad2cdd6-7cce-4de3-8710-977de667378c” target=”_blank” data-url=”https://www.ft.com/content/cad2cdd6-7cce-4de3-8710-977de667378c” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none”>Financial Times article citing sources “familiar with the matter”, the provinces of Gansu, Guizhou, and Inner Mongolia are offering a 50% discount on industrial power price to AI datacenters in the region. These cuts…

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