Key facts
- A proposed 6.2 billion yuan ($873 million) AI computing centre in Xianyou county, Fujian, specifies Nvidia H100 chips and seeks commercial partners.
- State-owned Sinomach said a subsidiary won a contract within a 3 billion yuan Shaanxi computing centre specifying Nvidia H100 and H200 processors.
- A 1.5 billion yuan Inner Mongolia development proposes 625 Nvidia H200 servers; industry reporting in June said two first-phase buildings had begun.
- Tender documents for a 1.16 billion yuan Gansu centre plan about 3,072 Nvidia processors but do not establish whether they were delivered.
- The Jilin developer expects bank loans to finance about 80% of a 2.26 billion yuan project, per an April government prospectus.
- Nvidia has said US export controls effectively shut it out of China's AI data-centre market, per the Reuters review.
A Reuters review published on November 13, 2026 identified more than $3 billion in Chinese computing projects built around Nvidia processors that US export controls restrict, even as the chipmaker has said the curbs effectively shut it out of China's AI data-centre market. The projects stretch from coastal technology hubs to remote western provinces.
A proposed 6.2 billion yuan ($873 million) AI computing centre in Xianyou county, Fujian province, seeks commercial partners and specifies Nvidia H100 chips for a facility intended to support large-scale AI development. In Shaanxi province, state-owned engineering group Sinomach said a subsidiary won a contract as part of a 3 billion yuan computing centre specifying H100 and H200 processors.
In Jilin province, an April government prospectus describes a 2.26 billion yuan project combining H100 processors with Chinese-developed chips; the developer expects bank loans to finance about 80% of the investment. An Inner Mongolia development of 1.5 billion yuan proposes installing 625 Nvidia H200 servers, and Chinese industry reporting in June said construction had begun on two buildings in its first phase.
Some projects have advanced further. In Gansu province, a local company awarded a 1.16 billion yuan construction contract in July for a computing centre planning approximately 3,072 Nvidia processors, according to tender documents specifying H100 and H200 hardware. The contract went to a consortium led by a subsidiary of state-owned Shaanxi Construction Engineering, and the documents do not establish whether the processors have been delivered.
Other facilities are already using restricted Nvidia hardware. The Wuxi municipal government said in March 2025 that a computing cluster using Nvidia H800 processors had entered operation. In Fujian, Shanghai-listed Damingcheng disclosed in June that a computing venture had built an H800 cluster; it had signed a computing-services agreement originally worth 759 million yuan, although the contract ended early.
Smaller purchases show demand extending to research institutions. Shenzhen University awarded a contract for three H100 processors in September, while US-blacklisted Northwestern Polytechnical University bought two H200 chips the following month, Reuters reported separately.
The review was published a day after Nvidia co-founder Jensen Huang, a vocal advocate of easing export restrictions, resigned as chief executive over a scandal. The report said his departure could deepen vulnerabilities for Chinese companies exposed to potential delays and supply disruptions as US curbs tighten.