Bye bye Nvidia? Chinese cloud providers aggressively cut down AI inference costs by using Huawei’s controversial accelerators and DeepSeek’s tech

DeepSeek’s V3 and R1 models are available through Huawei’s Ascend cloud serviceThey are powered by the Ascend 910x accelerators banned in the US, EU and UKThe pricing is much lower…

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Mine’s bigger than yours: Mysterious hyperscaler plans to build Europe’s largest cloud and AI data center that will suck enough electricity to power 20,000 homes

Permission to build data center in Hertfordshire has been approved Owner is likely to be a hyperscaler operator, though application was done by an obscure company It is expected to…

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Amazon wants to rent you a 32-core virtual workstation in the cloud for $4.40 per hour and yes, you’d still need to have a thin client to access it

GeneralPurpose.8xlarge delivers 32 virtual cores and 128GB memory plus 275GB storage This is far cheaper than Azure or Google Cloud, but more expensive than onprem if you plan to keep…

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