What Huawei’s Horinger data center reveals about China’s compute gap

What happened: Huawei built the Horinger AI data center in Inner Mongolia, drawing on China's energy supply, but US export controls leave it behind Nvidia in chip performance and efficiency. Key numbers: Horinger has up to 286 MW of IT power capacity across four buildings. About 105,000 Ascend 910C and 8,000 Ascend 910B chips are operational, equal to roughly 81,000 H100-equivalents. Why it matters: Horinger is one of China's largest AI data centers, yet projected development suggests it will remain far behind Colossus 2 until at least 2028, illustrating the scale of China's compute gap.

Huawei built the Horinger AI data center in Inner Mongolia, drawing on China's energy supply, but US export controls leave it behind Nvidia in chip performance and efficiency.

Horinger is one of China's largest AI data centers, yet projected development suggests it will remain far behind Colossus 2 until at least 2028, illustrating the scale of China's compute gap.