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title: "Nvidia tells cloud providers most clients must be non-Chinese"
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# Nvidia tells cloud providers most clients must be non-Chinese

From The Forward Pass daily issue, November 4, 2026 (https://theforwardpass.net/archive/daily/2026-11-04). Source: https://theforwardpass.net/archive/daily/2026-11-04/nvidia-tells-cloud-providers-most-clients-must-be-non-chinese

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**Top News** · Reported · ft.com

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](https://www.ft.com/content/1902df70-1380-4588-bad5-171352b575f2?syn-25a6b1a6=1)