Beijing’s sweeping directive marks one of its boldest moves yet to eliminate foreign technology from critical infrastructure — a blow to Nvidia, and a boost for Huawei and China’s AI chip ecosystem.

In a decisive escalation of its tech sovereignty ambitions, China has reportedly ordered that all state-funded data centre projects use only domestically-produced artificial intelligence (AI) chips. Advertisement

According to sources cited by local media, regulatory authorities have instructed that any new data centre projects receiving public funding must deploy exclusively Chinese-made AI processors. Projects still under construction — and less than 30% complete — have been told to remove or cancel orders for foreign chips, while those at a more advanced stage will be reviewed on a case-b

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