Don’t Let China Wire America’s Data Centers
America is spending hundreds of billions of dollars to build data centers in an attempt to lead the development of new artificial intelligence technology. Both lobbyists and lawmakers argue constantly about who could or should make the chips inside them, but there are far fewer people who ask about the components that connect those chips to each other and the outside world. That’s a big mistake because many of those components are made in China.
Optical transceivers are a major part of data center infrastructure, enabling high-speed data transfer between servers, racks and facilities. Nearly every major AI cluster in the country depends on them to operate, and China is the main supplier. In fact, Johns Hopkins Associate Professor Yury Dvorkin recently told Breitbart that China supplies approximately two-thirds of global optical transceivers.
