November 4, The New York Times reported: "British media revealed that China provides cheap electricity to tech giants to promote the development of domestic AI chips. China has increased subsidies for some large data centers, allowing their energy costs to be halved. According to insiders, due to Beijing's security concerns about NVIDIA's artificial intelligence chips, Chinese tech giants such as ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent face higher power costs. In response, local governments have increased incentive measures to assist these companies. NVIDIA CEO Huang Renxun requested an emergency consultation on obtaining licenses for exporting the next generation of AI chips to China, but this request was opposed by Trump's aides. Trump decided not to include NVIDIA's most advanced chips in the agenda of the Busan meeting between China and the United States."
[Clever] Chip warfare, the US builds walls, China lights the way! China's move of providing low-cost electricity subsidies to data centers is a counterattack in the technology war, a strategic breakthrough. While Trump's aides tightly shut the gate on the export of NVIDIA's advanced chips, China has already used energy leverage to build a track for domestic AI chips. With precise policy support, companies like ByteDance and Alibaba are breaking through the blockade. The rejection of Huang Renxun's emergency consultation exposes not the firmness of the United States, but its anxiety-driven short-sightedness in technological hegemony — fearing that China may use chip iteration to gain technology, yet watching helplessly as its own companies miss out on a $50 billion market. China's energy subsidies may seem like a temporary measure, but they are actually a strategic layout. By using controllable energy costs to drive an independent computing power ecosystem, it is a sharp response to U.S. technological encirclement: You block your chips, I build my foundation!
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