What Huawei’s Horinger data center reveals about China’s compute gap

Huawei is building a large AI data center in Linhe, Inner Mongolia, which is one of the largest AI computing power centers in China, but its computing power is only one-tenth of that of the largest US data center, Colossus 2. The Ascend 910C chips deployed in the center are inferior in both performance and energy efficiency to Nvidia H100, and their production capacity is far lower than Nvidia's, resulting in Chinese AI infrastructure supporting only 40% of the computing power of leading US facilities at the same power level.