China backs orbital data center startup with $8.4 billion in credit lines, signaling a new front in the AI compute race
China Just Bet $8.4 Billion That the Future of AI Compute Is in Orbit Most of the AI compute conversation right now is about H100 allocations, inference costs per token, and who has the largest training cluster. That’s a real fight. But China just signaled that it’s also playing a completely different game, one that…