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Huawei bid to build Egypt’s AI data centres, and Washington is scrambling

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Huawei has bid to build AI data centres for the Egyptian government. The US State Department is now trying to assemble a rival consortium from Nvidia, AMD and Microsoft. The tender offer proposes exporting 1,408 of Huawei’s top-end Ascend 950-series chips for an AI training cloud. A further 600, ei…

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  1. 2026-08-26 15:00 · The Next Web
    Huawei bid to build Egypt’s AI data centres, and Washington is scrambling

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