A Chinese AI firm, INF Tech, is using 2,300 Nvidia Blackwell chips hosted in an Indonesian cloud facility

A Chinese artificial intelligence company has managed to gain access to 2,300 Nvidia Blackwell chips through a cloud arrangement in Indonesia, even though President Donald Trump has already made it clear earlier this month that Nvidia should not be selling its high-end AI chips to China. This entire operation, revealed by The Wall Street Journal , runs through multiple countries and loopholes, but no part of it technically breaks U.S. export laws. The chips are installed inside a windowless data center tucked between a private school and an apartment complex in Jakarta. They were purchased by Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison, an Indonesian telecom provider. Indosat spent roughly $100 million to buy 32 GB200 racks from Aivres, a server-building company based in Silicon Valley. Each rack holds 72 Nvidia Blackwell chips, all of which are now lined up to serve a Shanghai-based firm called INF Tech. Indonesian telco acts as middleman for...

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