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Tencent leases 100,000 Nvidia chips from Oracle in Southeast Asia

Original: Tencent is leasing 100,000 Nvidia H100 chips from Oracle, placing them in Southeast Asian data centers like Malaysia. Th

Tencent is reportedly leasing 100,000 Nvidia H100 chips from Oracle, hosting them in Southeast Asian data centers including Malaysia. Commenters describe the deal as a strategic, costly move by a Chinese tech giant to build offshore computing capacity that sidesteps US export restrictions on advanced chips to China, highlighting the growing contest over AI hardware access.

Why now: The arrangement suggests a major Chinese company may be circumventing US chip export controls, raising geopolitical and regulatory questions.

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• Tencent is leasing 100,000 Nvidia H100 chips from Oracle, placing them in Southeast Asian data centers like Malaysia. This isn't just a massive hardware grab; it’s a highly strategic, costly move by a Chinese tech giant to build offshore infrastructure that bypasses US export… · asiaai · 1

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