The commerce secretary has been writing new rules that would affect Southeast Asian data centers, some of which are clients of his former firm.
Ana Swanson reported from Washington, Aaron Krolik from New York and Paul Mozur from Taiwan.
In Malaysia’s lush southern peninsula, a data center known as A201 is set to open next year, packed with hundreds of millions of dollars in Nvidia’s most advanced artificial intelligence servers.
The data center plans to supply this computing power to a Chinese tech giant. The setup is legal and profitable. It will also sidestep U.S. rules that ban sales of the most advanced A.I. chips directly to Chinese firms.
