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Z.ai powers up a 1-gigawatt AI data center built entirely on Chinese chips, report claims — GLM developer now runs multiple 10,000-chip clusters with zero Nvidia silicon

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(Image credit: UCG) Chinese AI developer Z.ai (formerly Zhipu) has finished building a 1GW data center stocked exclusively with domestically made chips and has switched part of it on, Bloomberg reported Monday, citing a person familiar with the matter. The facility will train the company's GLM model family, and the source told Bloomberg that Z.ai has now built or operates several computing clusters holding more than 10,000 chips apiece. A gigawatt is enough electricity to run roughly 750,000 homes, which puts the site among the largest ever stood up by a Chinese AI lab. Go deeper with TH Premium: AI and data centers The source didn't name the chip supplier, but Z.ai's recent training history points to Huawei. The company released GLM-5.2 in June , an open-weight model purportedly trained entirely on Huawei Ascend accelerators with no Nvidia hardware involved, and it topped the open-weight leaderboards within a week. Z.ai, formerly known as Zhipu, has also been on the U.S.…

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