Banned Nvidia chips traced to a Shanghai data center, Bloomberg reports
According to Bloomberg, a Chinese company bought servers fitted with Nvidia H800 chips, under US embargo, for a data center in Shanghai.
Aperia acquired 22 Dell servers fitted with H800 chips, a model Washington placed off-limits for sales to China in 2023. The Shanghai data center is linked to Megaspeed. Bloomberg says the Chinese company was founded by Alice Huang. Nvidia declined to comment. This information comes from a Reason article relaying Bloomberg's reporting, and it was not confirmed by an independent source in the search results consulted.
Source: Reason, published on November 13, 2026.