A wall of black server racks dominated Hall H2 of the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference, or WAIC, which concluded in Shanghai last week — the first public global debut of China's first domestically produced 100,000-card AI supercluster, the Dawning 8000 (Dengfeng), which has been named one of WAIC 2026's "Treasures of the Pavilion".

Tech firms are racing to build colossal clusters for next-gen AI, but cost, power and scale remain challenges.

A wall of black server racks dominated Hall H2 of the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference, or WAIC, which concluded in Shanghai last week — the first public global debut…