What If?

Li Dong listened to Gao Wen, at a loss for words.

I passed out. How was I supposed to tell you?

But he could only complain to himself. Aloud, he thanked him.

"Gao, I'm fine now. Nothing serious. I just didn't want you to worry."

"Don't give me that."

"Are you really all right?"

"I'm fine."

"Good. Then let's get down to business."

On the other end of the line, Li Dong heard Gao Wen flipping through papers.

"I've got an extra batch of Huaxuan's latest general-purpose AI accelerator cards, liquid-cooled cabinets, optical internet switches, storage systems, power distribution cabinets..."

Gao Wen rattled off a long list of AI hardware as if he were reciting a menu.

Li Dong was stunned.

Extra?

Was he joking? Li Dong knew exactly how tight the domestic supply of high-end computing power was.

AI companies were lining up to fight over equipment, and research institutions were applying for it too. People were even paying premiums for cards two generations old. Yet Gao Wen was telling him he had a batch of the latest equipment sitting unused?

"Yes. Unused."

Gao Wen sounded perfectly matter-of-fact.

Something felt wrong to Li Dong, so he asked,

"Gao, how many do you mean by 'a batch'?"

"3.2 million accelerator cards."

"How many?"

Li Dong thought he had misheard.

"3.2 million of Huaxuan's latest general-purpose AI accelerator cards."

Gao Wen repeated the number.

This time, Li Dong knew he had heard correctly. He stood there dumbstruck.

What did 3.2 million AI accelerator cards even mean?

Did he know about anthp's Rainier Project for la?

The publicly reported scale of that AI computing cluster, built specifically for large-model training and inference, was nearly 500,000 tanm2 accelerator chips. It had already been called the world's largest AI computing cluster.

And Gao Wen