China has spent billions of dollars building far too many data centers for AI and compute – could it lead to a huge market crash?

• DeepSeek is just one of the many reasons China’s AI growth simply didn’t materialize
• Up to 80% of new data center capacity hasn’t been used according to local sources
• Should this capacity hit the wider market, it could cause a major headache to data center developers

China’s AI infrastructure boom is faltering, as according to a report in MIT Technology Review, the country built hundreds of data centers to support its AI ambitions, but many are now sitting unused.

Billions were invested by…