Sources: many new Chinese AI data centers sit unused due to weak demand and DeepSeek-driven shifts; local reports say ~80% of new computing resources are idle (Caiwei Chen/MIT Technology Review)

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Caiwei Chen / MIT Technology Review:
Sources: many new Chinese AI data centers sit unused due to weak demand and DeepSeek-driven shifts; local reports say ~80% of new computing resources are idle — A year or so ago, Xiao Li was seeing floods of Nvidia chip deals on WeChat. A real estate contractor turned data center project manager …