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Trump administration reportedly considers a US DeepSeek ban | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

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The Trump administration is considering new restrictions on the Chinese AI lab DeepSeek that would limit it from buying Nvidia’s AI chips and potentially bar Americans from accessing its AI services, The New York Times reported on Wednesday.

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[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

What do you mean? The Chinese are known for government-coordinated megaprojects... They regularly build entire city districts pretty much over night. And it's not really quick... They've been at it since almost 20 years. And I believe in 2016 they released their national 15-year plan to ramp up power plants and AI in order to become the global AI leader by 2030.

We can see how in the times before AI, they were able to build large Bitcoin farms quickly (before they banned it) and by today, their AI industry publishes quite some models, papers... So I don't really see a reason to question this. Or is there anything I've missed?

[–] anonApril2025@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It's not about the building. It's about planning out the electrical grid to support hundreds of megawatts - for every single campus. They consume more power than everything else. 24/7.

Along with liquid cooling, which is mandatory now for an 'AI data center'. Air cooling cant cool that much power.

Buildings with less power are just regular data centers, not AI centered.