Nvidia tells cloud providers most clients must be non-Chinese

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Nvidia is putting a customer-base requirement on cloud computing providers. It is directing data centre clients to reduce their exposure to China, and says a majority of cloud providers' clients must be non-Chinese.

Here's what the direction covers:

• Data centre clients are being told to reduce their China exposure.
• Cloud computing providers have a specific instruction: their client base must have a non-Chinese majority.
• The majority requirement concerns the provider's customers, rather than the provider's own nationality.

Why care? If you are discussing this directive with a cloud provider, the concrete question is about who that provider serves. Nvidia told cloud computing providers that a majority of their clients must be non-Chinese, while directing data centre clients to reduce their exposure to China.

Sources: ft.com