SemiAnalysis's count of more than 1,000 Chinese datacenters puts the operating fleet above 24GW, larger than EMEA or the rest of Asia. For listed landlords such as GDS and VNET, the open question moves from how big the market is to how much rent its largest tenants will pay.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption60
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives70
- Confidence50
China forced Meta to reverse a completed acquisition of Manus, then codified outbound-investment review on July 1. Chinese-origin startups now carry post-close reversal risk.
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- Builder
- Builder 22%
- Operator
- Operator 28%
- Investor
- Investor 50%
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption20
- Hype gap+30
- Incentives60
- Confidence50
State money is arriving faster than autonomy, and inside the training centres the unit of production is still a human hour rather than a robot hour, which is what actually sets the price of the data.
Reality
- Evidence52
- Adoption55
- Hype gap+42
- Incentives74
- Confidence55
The NDRC's 800 billion yuan program is 60% larger than last year's and still slower out the door, while private investment falls 9.4%. Its guarantee sleeve alone matches the entire 2025 commitment.
Reality
- Evidence20
- Adoption24
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives62
- Confidence28
ByteDance and Tencent each took about 10,000 Nvidia accelerators, but NDRC case-by-case approval keeps most of the licensed allowance offshore. Domestic silicon still runs the workloads.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption34
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives72
- Confidence57