Bloomberg News reported Thursday that a Chinese company founded by Alice Huang obtained smuggled AI processors that were placed in a Shanghai data center connected to Megaspeed International. Huang is the woman at the center of the espionage scandal that forced out Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang.
The report, based on documents Bloomberg reviewed, identifies the facility as the Yangtze River Delta Project. Its president is Kang Wei, identified in Wall Street Journal reporting as Alice Huang's husband who introduced her to Jensen Huang.
According to a person familiar with the matter cited by Bloomberg, some of the servers were first sold to Aperia Cloud Services, a Singapore-based official Nvidia cloud partner. Aperia bought 22 Dell servers containing Nvidia H800 chips, which are prohibited from sale in China. Dell ended its business relationship with Aperia in February 2025 over concerns about the transaction.
Bloomberg located the hardware details in filings from Shanghai Longteng Intelligent Computing, a company Alice Huang established ten years ago. The filings were submitted to Chinese authorities because the firm used its servers as collateral for financing. Although Alice Huang left Shanghai Longteng in 2017, her sister Huang Yu became the majority owner.
The same filings showed the company's servers included 52 Super Micro Computer Inc. units equipped with Nvidia H100 or H200 chips, which require express US government permission before sale to Chinese entities.
Megaspeed showed investors a rendering of the Yangtze River Delta Project in 2024 and described it as the company's largest AI installation. Former Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang is scheduled to testify before Congress this month, and lawmakers are expected to scrutinize the procurement chain outlined in the Bloomberg report.
US officials believe Alice Huang was recruited by China's primary intelligence agency to target Jensen Huang and gather information about American AI plans, according to earlier Engadget reporting. Beijing has denied she is a spy.