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The office of Megaspeed in Singapore, where only two employees were present on a recent weekday in October 2025.
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Ana Swanson, Tripp Mickle, Paul Mozur and Mara Hvistendahl
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On a humid June night in 2024, Mr Jensen Huang, the chief executive of Nvidia, held court with several of his company’s major Asian customers at a bar with sweeping views of Taipei, Taiwan. They stood and toasted the booming artificial intelligence (AI) industry.
Next to the Nvidia chief was a woman named Huang Le, or Ms Alice Huang, an executive of a Singapore-based data centre company called Megaspeed, which was poised to buy US$2 billion (S$2.6 billion) of Nvidia AI technology over the next year.
