https://wccftech.com/chinese-ai-lab-deepseek-has-50000-nvidi...
Having previously worked in the DC space in Singapore, when I read the sales numbers, I was in disbelief. IMO, there was only a very low probability that all those GPUs remained in Singapore...
but it seems to me a set of methods for data augmentation, I can't see why it's cheaper than OpenAIs?
The DC market in SG has a very low vacancy rate meaning there's very little available space.... i.e. where are all those GPUs going if the market has very little space available?
To play's devils advocate, this could be an Nvidia reporting quirk with all of sales in SE Asia being reported as "Singapore" but even then, the numbers still piqued my interest.
You're also right that it could be a reporting quirk.
I don't think we can say definitively that Chinese companies didn't use Singapore as a conduit for purchasing advanced GPUs, I haven't come across any evidence for that. (If anyone knows otherwise, please correct me.)
[1] https://www.ashurst.com/en/insights/lessons-from-singapore-d... [2] https://themalaysianreserve.com/2025/01/24/singapore-data-ce...