Reports indicate that Moon's Dark Side is seeking to rent advanced chip computing power from NVIDIA in Europe

CNBC cited four informed sources reporting that the Chinese artificial intelligence startup Dark Side of the Moon had discussions this year with several emerging cloud service providers operating data centers in Europe, seeking to rent computing power provided by NVIDIA GPUs. Three of the sources stated that Dark Side of the Moon primarily sought to rent NVIDIA's latest Blackwell series chips; one source indicated that the two parties had discussed renting a computing cluster deployed in Europe, consisting of 8,000 or more Blackwell chips.

The sources said that Dark Side of the Moon mainly hopes to utilize these chips for AI model inference while also intending to acquire model training computing power. The United States currently prohibits the export of NVIDIA's most advanced AI chips to China, but existing laws have not granted regulatory agencies broad authority to restrict Chinese companies from remotely using these chips through overseas cloud services. Some cloud service providers and financing institutions, concerned about the U.S. tightening remote usage restrictions, have sought to charge higher advance payments, with proposals requiring Dark Side of the Moon to pay advance payments 30% to 50% higher than those of non-Chinese clients. Dark Side of the Moon was established in 2023 and owns the Kimi series models.