DeepSeek ordered at least 160,000 Huawei Ascend 950DT chips for a 1-gigawatt data center in Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia, per Bloomberg. At full load the site will draw as much power as 750,000 homes. The chips are intended for inference, while training remains on Nvidia hardware.
On July 28, 2026, the FCC released rules barring imports of new Chinese humanoid and quadruped robots, along with connected power inverters that link solar, batteries and data center gear to the grid, effective immediately upon publication. The official reason is protecting the US AI supply chain from disruption, data theft and cyberattacks; robots already sold in the US stay. Analysts estimate Chinese humanoid robots hold roughly 85% of the global market, and China is the world's largest inverter maker.