CHINA'S AI DATA CENTER BOOM FACES COLLAPSE AS DEMAND FALTERS

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China's AI infrastructure boom has led to severe overcapacity, with 80% of computing resources across 500+ new data centers sitting unused. DeepSeek's R1 model fundamentally changed market dynamics by shifting demand from training-focused to inference-optimized hardware, rendering many facilities obsolete. Despite this market correction, China has continued to aggressively invest in infrastructure to compete with U.S. initiatives like the $500 billion Stargate project.