Taiwan opens sovereign AI data center with Nvidia-powered supercomputer

Taiwan opens sovereign AI data center with Nvidia-powered supercomputer

By Staff Writer
Publication Date: 2025-12-12 03:43:00

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Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te speaks at the opening ceremony for the National Center for High-performance Computing (NCHC) cloud computing center. (Photo by Lauly Li)

LAULY LI and CHENG TING-FANG

TAINAN, Taiwan — Taiwan has opened its latest and largest AI supercomputing data center with Nvidia’s most advanced Blackwell chips, a major effort in the government’s push to develop sovereign capabilities in artificial intelligence and to drive innovation in the island’s all-important semiconductor industry.