Where is AI?

The locations of advanced AI chips are closely-held industry secrets.This map shows a proxy for that information: the locations of individual "regions," or datacenter clusters containing GPUs, that are available for hire from the world's major cloud computing businesses. 

While China has more GPU-enabled "regions" than the U.S., the U.S. leads China on datacenters equipped with the most advanced Nvidia H100 GPUs.
Chart: Billy Perrigo for TIMESource: Lehdonvirta, Wu and Hawkins, 2024Created with Datawrapper