Chinese AI lab Moonshot turned to Europe for Nvidia Blackwell access amid U.S. China curbs, sources tell CNBC
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Chinese AI lab Moonshot turned to Europe for Nvidia Blackwell access amid U.S. China curbs, sources tell CNBC
Moonshot AI has sought leasing agreements with neoclouds for advanced chips in Europe, as U.S. export controls restrict their import to China.
On October 21, 2026, in Frankfurt, a city in western Germany, a photo shows the logo of the Chinese company Moonshot AI on a mobile phone screen and the logo of the company's app, Kimi AI, on a computer screen. (Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP/Getty Images)
The Cold Technological War between Washington and Beijing has just found a new playground: European data centers. A game of cat and mouse where the most powerful chips in the world are cheese.
Chinese AI Lab Moonshot Seeks European NVIDIA Blackwell Compute to Skirt U.S. Export Bans
Beijing-based artificial intelligence lab Moonshot AI has been actively negotiating to lease advanced computing clusters powered by NVIDIA Blackwell chips hosted in European data centers. Because current U.S. trade rules restrict direct physical shipments of advanced semiconductors into China, utilizing overseas cloud services functions as a workaround to acquire cutting-edge compute. Industry sources indicate that […]
Sources tell CNBC that Moonshot AI has negotiated Nvidia Blackwell GPU lease in data centers across Europe to bypass U.S. controls
Moonshot AI would have negotiated capacity rental with GPU Blackwell at European data centres, a remote access route that complicates the implementation of US export controls.
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