Moonshot Rents 32 Super Micro Servers With Nvidia B300 in China

Moonshot AI signed contracts in August to rent 32 Super Micro Computer servers equipped with Nvidia's B300 GPUs, valued at 432 million yuan, according to documents filed with Beijing regulators and first reported by Bloomberg. The Techmeme summary frames the deal bluntly: Moonshot rented "32 China-based Super Micro servers with Nvidia B300, the most powerful AI chip, possibly in breach of US rules."

The price is the loud number. "The contracts suggested that each server was valued at 13.5 million yuan, roughly 350 percent higher than the going rate in the US," The Standard wrote, summarizing the Bloomberg report. The B300 is Nvidia's most advanced AI accelerator, and the US has effectively blocked the top-tier chips from going to China since at least 2022.

Chinese AI developers have "found workarounds by renting servers outside China, especially in Southeast Asian countries like Malaysia," per The Standard. The Moonshot fingerprint runs further: an earlier Bloomberg piece in July cited a White House official saying the company "acquired GB300-equipped servers and has accessed GB300s in Thailand, likely to train its AI models."

The landlord carries its own weight. Super Micro co-founder Yih-Shyan "Wally" Liaw was charged in March in what prosecutors characterized as a $2.5 billion scheme to divert Nvidia-powered Super Micro servers to China; a company-commissioned independent probe concluded in August that current senior management "had no knowledge of the purported scheme." The Moonshot filings land on top of that still-open exposure, alongside our prior note that an Nvidia lawyer's email preceded a probe shift to DOJ in a separate China-chip matter.