Alex M. Dunne (he/him)#DATACENTER #SMUGGLING || This report of 3 guys at #SuperMicro smuggling $2.5B of #NVIDIA B200 chips to China only tells half the story.
So I asked #CoPilot to derive how many chips and how much compute that might yield. Answer: "a 50–80 MW datacenter class for a production deployment of a 40k‑B200 cluster" which is "enough capacity to train and serve multiple frontier‑class LLMs concurrently, or run a single massive multi‑tenant AI platform".
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/19/us-tech-execs-smuggled-nvidia-chips-to-china-prosecutors-say.html