U.S. Blocks Nvidia’s Scaled-Down AI Chip Sales to China
The White House has decided to block Nvidia from selling its B30A AI chip to Chinese customers, halting the company's latest attempt to comply with export restrictions.
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The White House has decided to block Nvidia from selling its B30A AI chip to Chinese customers, halting the company's latest attempt to comply with export restrictions.
atNorth has promoted Camilla O'Leary to Director of Client Management and appointed Howard Shutt as Director of Hyperscale Sales and Espen Bjanes as Sales Director in Norway, reflecting continued growth in demand for its data centers across the Nordics.
DataM Intelligence projects the global AI in edge computing market to grow from $16.54 billion in 2024 to $83.86 billion by 2032, driven by industrial IoT, 5G, and intelligent infrastructure expansion.
China has ordered that state-funded data centers use only domestically made AI chips, effectively barring foreign suppliers such as Nvidia, AMD, and Intel from participating in these projects. The move reinforces Beijing's efforts to reduce reliance on foreign technology and boost local semiconductor production.
Microsoft and Abu Dhabi-based G42 announced a 200-megawatt expansion of data center capacity in the UAE, to be delivered through Khazna Data Centers as part of Microsoft's $15 billion investment plan in the country.
Google has announced Project Suncatcher, a research initiative to develop solar-powered AI data centers in orbit using satellite constellations equipped with TPUs, with prototype launches planned for 2027.
NVIDIA and Deutsche Telekom have announced a €1 billion collaboration to build one of Europe’s largest AI factories in Munich. The project, called the Industrial AI Cloud, will use up to 10,000 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs to boost Germany’s AI computing power by about 50% and is set to begin operations in early 2026.
Gcore has launched Everywhere AI, a unified platform that enables three-click deployment of AI training and inference across cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments, offering performance optimization, compliance controls, and GPU lifecycle management.
Flex and LG Electronics have announced a collaboration to develop integrated modular cooling technologies for gigawatt-scale AI data centers, combining their liquid and air-based thermal management systems to improve efficiency and scalability.
MPLX LP and MARA Holdings have signed a letter of intent to collaborate on integrated power generation and data center campuses in West Texas, with initial power capacity of 400 MW and potential expansion to 1.5 GW.
Microsoft announced a $15.2 billion investment in the United Arab Emirates through 2029, including $5.5 billion for AI and cloud infrastructure and new export licenses to ship over 60,000 Nvidia GPUs to the country.
Lambda has entered a multibillion-dollar agreement with Microsoft to deploy tens of thousands of NVIDIA GPUs, expanding their long-term collaboration on AI infrastructure.
OpenAI has entered a seven-year, $38 billion agreement with Amazon Web Services to power its AI workloads using AWS infrastructure, including hundreds of thousands of NVIDIA GPUs and the ability to scale to tens of millions of CPUs by 2026.
Salute has introduced a new Direct-to-Chip liquid cooling operations service for AI and HPC data centers, announced at NVIDIA GTC Washington DC. The service aims to help operators manage high-density, liquid-based environments safely and efficiently.
CleanArc Data Centers has acquired 87.5 acres of land to expand its Virginia hyperscale campus by 300MW, increasing total planned capacity to nearly 1GW, with phased power delivery through 2035.
XNRGY Climate Systems has opened its Mesa 1 manufacturing facility in Arizona, expanding its U.S. operations to meet growing demand for data center cooling technologies. The new site is expected to create up to 900 jobs once fully operational.
A new analysis by DC Market Insights forecasts the global Data Center Infrastructure Management market to grow from $1.4 billion in 2020 to nearly $13.9 billion by 2035, driven by AI integration and efficiency needs.
Meta Platforms will invest $1.5 billion to build a new AI-optimized data center in Northeast El Paso, Texas. The facility will employ around 100 permanent workers and is expected to begin operations by 2028.
Supermicro announced plans to deliver next-generation NVIDIA AI platforms in 2026 and introduced U.S.-manufactured, TAA-compliant systems optimized for government applications.
Northstar Enterprise + Defense announced a partnership with Owens Corning to integrate advanced materials into its AI-ready modular data centers, improving insulation, durability, and sustainability.