Warning of glut in AI computing centres as China readies for return of Nvidia’s H20 chip
Industry demands are changing and only about 30 per cent of the country’s intelligent computing capacity is being used
As of November, nearly 150 intelligent computing centre projects were up and running throughout China, and another 400 or so projects were planned or under construction, according to the newspaper, the mouthpiece of the Ministry of Science and Technology.
“The rapid development of artificial intelligence technology has given rise to a boom in the construction of intelligent computing power. However, amid this boom, many blindly launched intelligent computing centres are running idle, and a large amount of idle computing power is waiting to be activated,” the report said.
“Blind investment has led to waste of resources and market imbalances, which have had a negative impact on the high-quality development of [China’s] computing power industry.”
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