Huawei bid to build Egypt’s AI data centres, and Washington is scrambling
26-08-2026 17:00 via thenextweb.com

Huawei bid to build Egypt’s AI data centres, and Washington is scrambling

Huawei has bid to build AI data centres for the Egyptian government. The US State Department is now trying to assemble a rival consortium from Nvidia, AMD and Microsoft. The tender offer proposes exporting 1,408 of Huawei’s top-end Ascend 950-series chips for an AI training cloud. A further 600, either the same chips or the […]
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