AI Reports · Epoch AI · 2026-11-06 · Report / white paper
What Huawei’s Horinger data center reveals about China’s compute gap
Huawei's AI data center in Horinger, Inner Mongolia, uses Ascend chips and has an estimated AI computing capacity of just 7% that of SpaceX's Colossus 2 in Tennessee, the world's largest AI data center. Huawei makes far fewer chips than Nvidia, and its best chips are less energy-efficient, while US export controls on Nvidia chips limit the computing power Chinese data centers can deploy.