[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"branding":3,"analytics":7,"article-china-drafts-295-bn-plan-for-ai-data-centres-aims-to-exclude-nvidia":10,"sections":35},{"siteName":4,"siteTagline":5,"publisherName":4,"contactEmail":6},"The Revision","Tech news, decoded.","editor@therevision.news",{"gaMeasurementId":8,"adsenseClientId":9},"G-ZW2MV82GYR","ca-pub-8533917693782264",{"article":11},{"id":12,"slug":13,"title":14,"dek":15,"body_md":16,"tags_json":17,"published_at":18,"created_at":19,"updated_at":20,"status":21,"review_note":22,"review_notes":23,"image_url":24,"persona_id":22,"persona_name":22,"section":25,"tags":26,"sources":30,"feedback":34,"feedback_at":22,"cost_usd":34,"total_tokens":34},453,"china-drafts-295-bn-plan-for-ai-data-centres-aims-to-exclude-nvidia","China Drafts $295bn AI Data Center Plan to Cut Out Nvidia","Beijing is writing a five-year blueprint to spend 2 trillion yuan on AI computing capacity built entirely on domestic chips.","China wants to spend $295 billion on AI data centers, and the plan explicitly locks out Nvidia.\n\nBeijing is drafting a five-year investment blueprint worth roughly 2 trillion yuan to build AI computing infrastructure at national scale. The central design constraint is domestic hardware: American chips, including the Nvidia GPUs that dominate AI training globally, are specifically excluded. The plan fits a trajectory that began in earnest when the US restricted sales of Nvidia's most advanced processors to Chinese buyers in 2022 — a squeeze Beijing has been preparing to work around ever since.\n\nThe significance here isn't just the dollar figure. The plan reflects a strategic bet that export controls are permanent rather than negotiable, and that China needs to build its AI industrial base on whatever chips its own manufacturers can supply. That's a harder path than it sounds: current domestic alternatives trail Nvidia's top-end hardware on AI training workloads, and raw capital spending doesn't automatically close a silicon performance gap.\n\nThe blueprint is still in draft, which is worth noting. China has announced ambitious technology targets before, and the distance between a government plan and deployed infrastructure can be considerable.","[\"ai\",\"hardware\",\"china\",\"policy\"]","2026-06-09T10:07:04.000Z","2026-06-09T13:19:56.891Z","2026-06-18T07:20:10.257Z","published",null,[],"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.xyz.onl\u002Farticle-images\u002Fchina-drafts-295-bn-plan-for-ai-data-centres-aims-to-exclude-nvidia.webp","ai",[25,27,28,29],"hardware","china","policy",[31],{"name":32,"url":33},"The Next Web","https:\u002F\u002Fthenextweb.com\u002Fnews\u002Fchina-295-billion-ai-data-centre-plan",0,{"sections":36},[37,41,46,51,55,59,64,69,74,79,84,89,94,99],{"name":38,"slug":25,"count":39,"latest_published_at":40},"AI",2602,"2026-07-18T18:30:00.000Z",{"name":42,"slug":43,"count":44,"latest_published_at":45},"Security","security",315,"2026-07-17T19:30:00.000Z",{"name":47,"slug":48,"count":49,"latest_published_at":50},"Deals","deals",179,"2026-06-29T20:02:07.000Z",{"name":52,"slug":29,"count":53,"latest_published_at":54},"Policy",169,"2026-07-17T19:49:53.000Z",{"name":56,"slug":27,"count":57,"latest_published_at":58},"Hardware",126,"2026-07-16T20:09:48.000Z",{"name":60,"slug":61,"count":62,"latest_published_at":63},"Consumer Tech","consumer-tech",94,"2026-07-16T16:29:46.000Z",{"name":65,"slug":66,"count":67,"latest_published_at":68},"Software","software",72,"2026-07-17T09:42:05.000Z",{"name":70,"slug":71,"count":72,"latest_published_at":73},"Science","science",66,"2026-07-10T10:29:37.000Z",{"name":75,"slug":76,"count":77,"latest_published_at":78},"Dev Tools","dev-tools",60,"2026-07-16T16:59:13.000Z",{"name":80,"slug":81,"count":82,"latest_published_at":83},"Startups","startups",42,"2026-07-16T16:30:35.000Z",{"name":85,"slug":86,"count":87,"latest_published_at":88},"Gaming","gaming",41,"2026-07-09T04:00:00.000Z",{"name":90,"slug":91,"count":92,"latest_published_at":93},"General","general",29,"2026-07-10T22:28:58.000Z",{"name":95,"slug":96,"count":97,"latest_published_at":98},"Reviews","reviews",20,"2026-06-24T12:00:01.000Z",{"name":100,"slug":101,"count":102,"latest_published_at":103},"How-To","how-to",6,"2026-06-16T09:00:00.000Z"]