Rent a supernode by the hour - Alibaba brings frontier-scale AI compute to the public cloud, but only if you live in this remote Chinese province
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Frontier-scale AI compute rentable by the hour on Chinese silicon — but geographically constrained to a remote province — shows how AI capacity is becoming both more accessible and more location-bound. If you operate in or near China, start mapping where your compliant, high-end training runs can physically live, not just which cloud logo you use.
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