Alibaba wants to expand data center capacity past 20 GW by 2032, says its new V900 AI chip can scale to 500,000-card clusters, but will 'China's most powerful AI chip' be enough to displace Nvidia GPUs?
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Alibaba targeting >20 GW of capacity and 500,000-card V900 clusters shows China is building a parallel AI compute universe around domestic silicon. If you operate globally, plan for a bifurcated infra world—Nvidia-first in some markets, local accelerators plus custom software stacks in others.
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