DeepSeek reportedly plans 160,000-chip Huawei cluster in Inner Mongolia

DeepSeek plans to deploy at least 160,000 Huawei Ascend 950DT accelerators at a data center it is building in Inner Mongolia, according to people familiar with the matter. The proposed installation would be among the largest known clusters of Huawei AI chips, although its deployment schedule depends on the chipmaker’s production capacity.

The AI developer intends to use the processors for inference, running its models to respond to users, and currently has no plans to use them for training. The planned chips would account for only part of the facility’s eventual capacity, with the broader project targeting power consumption on a gigawatt scale. The timing and scale remain reported plans rather than a completed deployment. [Bloomberg]