According to CNBC, Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI, known for its Kimi model family, has explored leasing European data center capacity to gain remote access to NVIDIA's Blackwell processors. Discussions with European neocloud providers focused mainly on inference clusters of 8,000 or more Blackwell GPUs, though training capacity was also considered. The talks follow White House claims in July that Moonshot had remotely tapped Blackwell systems in Thailand, while current U.S. export controls ban physical shipments of top-tier accelerators to China but leave cross-border cloud leasing largely outside regulation. European operators have sought 30% to 50% more upfront payment from Moonshot than from non-Chinese clients to offset regulatory risk, and the House passed the Remote Access Security Act in January, which now awaits Senate action. According to the Financial Times, NVIDIA has told cloud partners to allocate at least 51% of their capacity to non-Chinese customers.
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