Nvidia reportedly tells cloud partners to limit Chinese customer exposure

Nvidia has told data center partners to reduce their reliance on Chinese customers, according to a Financial Times report cited in the supplied coverage, with cloud partners instructed to sell at least 51% of their services to non-Chinese companies.^[1] Cloud services let customers rent computing capacity in remote data centers; the report places the instruction against Washington's increasing efforts to restrict China's access to advanced artificial intelligence chips.^[1]

The supplied coverage gives no implementation deadline or explanation of how the share of services sold would be measured.^[1]

If implemented, the 51% requirement would push partners below that threshold to add non-Chinese business, reduce Chinese business, or do both.^[1] If replacement customers take time to arrive, unused computing capacity could weigh on revenue while providers still bear equipment and facility costs.^[1] The business impact therefore depends on each provider's existing customer mix and ability to attract replacement demand.^[1]

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