How China dodges the US chip ban: Flying suitcases, renting servers abroad, and ….​Times of India

 To circumvent US AI chip restrictions, Chinese firms are creatively processing data abroad, exemplified by engineers transporting hard drives to Malaysian data centers for AI model training. Southeast Asia is becoming a strategic hub with rapidly expanding data-center capacity, while the Middle East also attracts Chinese AI developers, highlighting the challenges of enforcing US export controls.