China's electricity glut turns data centers into a solution, as 14nm chips get pressed into service
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-10-08
An observation going around: on top of a pork glut, China now has an electricity glut — to the point that "data centers are the solution to electricity oversupply." Commenter teortaxesTex quips they'll make those 14nm chips work, pointing to mature-node chips plus surplus power driving massive data center buildout, the mirror image of the US where power is the bottleneck.
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