Even cutting all China GPU purchases leaves massive unmet compute demand
peterjliu · x · 2026-11-13
peterjliu argues that even if all legitimate and illegitimate purchases of compute by China were eliminated, there would still be significant unmet demand for every last GPU — implying global compute scarcity is driven by structural demand beyond China, and export controls won't close the supply gap.
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