{
  "name": "Hyperscalers",
  "url": "https://hyperscalerlist.com/",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0",
  "cite": "Hyperscaler List, https://hyperscalerlist.com/",
  "updated": "2026-11-11",
  "fields": [
    {
      "key": "category",
      "label": "Type",
      "type": "enum",
      "description": "Hyperscale cloud, internal hyperscaler, AI cloud or regional alternative.",
      "filterable": true,
      "sortable": true,
      "enumValues": [
        "Hyperscale cloud",
        "Internal hyperscaler",
        "AI cloud",
        "Regional alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "key": "regions",
      "label": "Regions",
      "type": "number",
      "description": "Live cloud regions, from the operator's own region page or region list.",
      "sortable": true
    },
    {
      "key": "zones",
      "label": "Zones",
      "type": "number",
      "description": "Availability zones (availability domains at Oracle) the operator states across its regions.",
      "sortable": true
    },
    {
      "key": "countries",
      "label": "Countries",
      "type": "number",
      "description": "Countries and territories with at least one live region, counted from the operator's region list.",
      "sortable": true
    },
    {
      "key": "locations",
      "label": "Named locations",
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Deployment locations the operator names where it publishes no region count.",
      "sortable": true
    },
    {
      "key": "datacenters",
      "label": "Data centers",
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Data center count in the operator's own words.",
      "sortable": true
    },
    {
      "key": "ownership",
      "label": "Owned vs leased",
      "type": "string",
      "description": "What the operator discloses about owning or leasing its facilities.",
      "sortable": true
    },
    {
      "key": "ai_capacity",
      "label": "AI capacity",
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Announced AI data center capacity in GW or MW, or the scale of a named AI cluster.",
      "sortable": true
    },
    {
      "key": "ai_platform",
      "label": "AI compute",
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The operator's AI accelerators, instances or internal AI platform.",
      "sortable": true
    },
    {
      "key": "capex",
      "label": "Latest capex",
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Latest reported capital expenditure with its period, plus guidance where given. Group-wide figures for parent companies.",
      "sortable": true
    },
    {
      "key": "investment_plan",
      "label": "Investment plan",
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Multi-year AI and cloud investment programs, separate from annual capex.",
      "sortable": true
    },
    {
      "key": "sovereign_cloud",
      "label": "Sovereign cloud",
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Named sovereign, government or in-country cloud offerings.",
      "sortable": true
    }
  ],
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    {
      "id": "alibaba-cloud",
      "name": "Alibaba Cloud",
      "url": "https://www.alibabacloud.com/",
      "summary": "Alibaba Group’s cloud runs 32 regions and 109 zones, opened Amsterdam in October 2026, and is spending RMB 380bn on AI and cloud infrastructure.",
      "hq": "CN",
      "tags": [
        "Hyperscale cloud"
      ],
      "fields": {
        "category": "Hyperscale cloud",
        "regions": 32,
        "zones": 109,
        "countries": 18,
        "datacenters": null,
        "ownership": null,
        "ai_capacity": null,
        "ai_platform": "Platform for AI (PAI): DLC training and EAS inference",
        "capex": "RMB 67.7bn (Alibaba Group) in the quarter to 30 Jun 2026",
        "investment_plan": "RMB 380bn (USD 53bn) AI and cloud program over three years, announced Feb 2025",
        "sovereign_cloud": null,
        "locations": null
      },
      "sources": [
        {
          "url": "https://www.alibabacloud.com/en/press-room/first-public-cloud-region-in-the-netherlands",
          "title": "Alibaba Cloud Netherlands region launch",
          "accessed": "2026-11-11",
          "fields": [
            "regions",
            "zones",
            "category"
          ]
        },
        {
          "url": "https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/ecs/user-guide/regions-and-zones",
          "title": "ECS regions and zones",
          "accessed": "2026-11-11",
          "fields": [
            "countries"
          ]
        },
        {
          "url": "https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/pai/product-overview/what-is-machine-learning-platform-for-ai/",
          "title": "Platform for AI overview",
          "accessed": "2026-11-11",
          "fields": [
            "ai_platform"
          ]
        },
        {
          "url": "https://data.alibabagroup.com/ecms-files/1532295521/fa5d65fc-9b3e-4e82-a8fc-4ce1c3e2c407/Alibaba%20Group%20Announces%20June%20Quarter%202026%20Results.pdf",
          "title": "Alibaba June quarter 2026 results",
          "accessed": "2026-11-11",
          "fields": [
            "capex"
          ]
        },
        {
          "url": "https://home.alibabagroup.com/en-US/document-1830678592242057216",
          "title": "Alibaba three-year AI and cloud investment",
          "accessed": "2026-11-11",
          "fields": [
            "investment_plan"
          ]
        }
      ],
      "verifiedAt": "2026-11-11"
    },
    {
      "id": "aws",
      "name": "Amazon Web Services (AWS)",
      "url": "https://aws.amazon.com/",
      "summary": "39 regions and 124 availability zones, Trainium chips for AI, and a separate sovereign cloud for Europe.",
      "hq": "US",
      "tags": [
        "Hyperscale cloud"
      ],
      "fields": {
        "category": "Hyperscale cloud",
        "regions": 39,
        "zones": 124,
        "countries": 28,
        "datacenters": null,
        "ownership": null,
        "ai_capacity": "3.9 GW of new power added in 2025; total power capacity to double by end-2027",
        "ai_platform": "Trainium3 accelerators; Neuron SDK; GPU instances",
        "capex": "USD 77.3bn PP&E purchases in Q3 2026; ~USD 220bn cash capex guided for 2026",
        "investment_plan": null,
        "sovereign_cloud": "AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Brandenburg, launched 2026); AWS GovCloud (US)",
        "locations": null
      },
      "sources": [
        {
          "url": "https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/regions_az/",
          "title": "AWS Regions and Availability Zones",
          "accessed": "2026-11-11",
          "fields": [
            "regions",
            "zones",
            "countries",
            "sovereign_cloud",
            "category"
          ]
        },
        {
          "url": "https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/amazon-ceo-andy-jassy-2025-letter-to-shareholders",
          "title": "Andy Jassy 2025 letter to shareholders",
          "accessed": "2026-11-11",
          "fields": [
            "ai_capacity"
          ]
        },
        {
          "url": "https://aws.amazon.com/ai/machine-learning/trainium/",
          "title": "AWS Trainium",
          "accessed": "2026-11-11",
          "fields": [
            "ai_platform"
          ]
        },
        {
          "url": "https://ir.aboutamazon.com/news-release/news-release-details/2026/Amazon-com-Announces-Third-Quarter-Results/",
          "title": "Amazon Q3 2026 results",
          "accessed": "2026-11-11",
          "fields": [
            "capex"
          ]
        }
      ],
      "verifiedAt": "2026-11-11"
    },
    {
      "id": "apple",
      "name": "Apple",
      "url": "https://www.apple.com/",
      "summary": "Apple runs its services and Apple Intelligence from eight Apple-owned data centers, with Private Cloud Compute on Apple silicon servers.",
      "hq": "US",
      "tags": [
        "Internal hyperscaler"
      ],
      "fields": {
        "category": "Internal hyperscaler",
        "regions": null,
        "zones": null,
        "countries": null,
        "datacenters": "8 Apple-owned data centers",
        "ownership": "Apple-owned data centers (2026 environmental report)",
        "ai_capacity": null,
        "ai_platform": "Private Cloud Compute on Apple silicon servers",
        "capex": "USD 9.04bn PP&E payments in FY2026 (year to 26 Sep 2026)",
        "investment_plan": null,
        "sovereign_cloud": null,
        "locations": null
      },
      "sources": [
        {
          "url": "https://www.apple.com/environment/pdf/Apple_Environmental_Progress_Report_2026.pdf",
          "title": "Apple Environmental Progress Report 2026",
          "accessed": "2026-11-11",
          "fields": [
            "datacenters",
            "ownership"
          ]
        },
        {
          "url": "https://security.apple.com/blog/private-cloud-compute/",
          "title": "Apple Private Cloud Compute",
          "accessed": "2026-11-11",
          "fields": [
            "ai_platform",
            "category"
          ]
        },
        {
          "url": "https://www.apple.com/newsroom/pdfs/fy2026q4/FY26_Q4_Consolidated_Financial_Statements.pdf",
          "title": "Apple FY2026 Q4 financial statements",
          "accessed": "2026-11-11",
          "fields": [
            "capex"
          ]
        }
      ],
      "verifiedAt": "2026-11-11"
    },
    {
      "id": "baidu-ai-cloud",
      "name": "Baidu AI Cloud",
      "url": "https://cloud.baidu.com/",
      "summary": "Baidu sells AI infrastructure and the Qianfan model platform from Beijing, Guangzhou, Suzhou, Wuhan, Baoding and Hong Kong.",
      "hq": "CN",
      "tags": [
        "Hyperscale cloud"
      ],
      "fields": {
        "category": "Hyperscale cloud",
        "regions": null,
        "zones": null,
        "countries": null,
        "locations": "Beijing, Guangzhou, Suzhou, Hong Kong, Wuhan and Baoding endpoints",
        "datacenters": null,
        "ownership": null,
        "ai_capacity": null,
        "ai_platform": "Qianfan MaaS: model services and agent development",
        "capex": "RMB 11.4bn (Baidu Inc.) in Q2 2026",
        "investment_plan": null,
        "sovereign_cloud": null
      },
      "sources": [
        {
          "url": "https://intl.cloud.baidu.com/en/doc/VPC/s/ek0bx6ga0-intl-en",
          "title": "Baidu Route API endpoints",
          "accessed": "2026-11-11",
          "fields": [
            "locations",
            "category"
          ]
        },
        {
          "url": "https://ir.baidu.com/baidu-general-business",
          "title": "Baidu AI Cloud business",
          "accessed": "2026-11-11",
          "fields": [
            "ai_platform"
          ]
        },
        {
          "url": "https://ir.baidu.com/news-releases/news-release-details/baidu-announces-second-quarter-2026-results",
          "title": "Baidu Q2 2026 results",
          "accessed": "2026-11-11",
          "fields": [
            "capex"
          ]
        }
      ],
      "verifiedAt": "2026-11-11"
    },
    {
      "id": "bytedance-volcano-engine",
      "name": "ByteDance Volcano Engine",
      "url": "https://www.volcengine.com/",
      "summary": "ByteDance sells the infrastructure behind its own apps through Volcano Engine: GPU instances, serverless GPU and model services from Beijing, Shanghai and Johor.",
      "hq": "CN",
      "tags": [
        "Hyperscale cloud"
      ],
      "fields": {
        "category": "Hyperscale cloud",
        "regions": null,
        "zones": null,
        "countries": null,
        "locations": "Beijing, Shanghai and Johor access regions",
        "datacenters": null,
        "ownership": null,
        "ai_capacity": null,
        "ai_platform": "GPU instances with GPU passthrough; serverless GPU",
        "capex": "2026 AI capex budget above RMB 200bn, up from RMB 160bn (SCMP, citing sources)",
        "investment_plan": null,
        "sovereign_cloud": null
      },
      "sources": [
        {
          "url": "https://www.volcengine.com/about",
          "title": "About Volcano Engine",
          "accessed": "2026-11-11",
          "fields": [
            "category"
          ]
        },
        {
          "url": "https://docs.volcengine.com/docs/loading-1/access-region-and-volcanic-cloud-intra-net-connection?lang=en",
          "title": "Volcano Engine access regions",
          "accessed": "2026-11-11",
          "fields": [
            "locations"
          ]
        },
        {
          "url": "https://docs.volcengine.com/docs/vefaas/Overview_of_serverless_GPU?lang=en",
          "title": "Volcano Engine serverless GPU",
          "accessed": "2026-11-11",
          "fields": [
            "ai_platform"
          ]
        },
        {
          "url": "https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3352906/bytedance-raises-2026-capex-least-25-amid-ai-boom-rising-memory-costs-sources-say",
          "title": "SCMP: ByteDance raises 2026 capex",
          "accessed": "2026-11-11",
          "fields": [
            "capex"
          ]
        }
      ],
      "verifiedAt": "2026-11-11"
    },
    {
      "id": "coreweave",
      "name": "CoreWeave",
      "url": "https://www.coreweave.com/",
      "summary": "An AI-only GPU cloud with over 1.7 GW active and 4.6 GW contracted at the end of Q3 2026, with USD 37bn to 39bn of 2026 capex.",
      "hq": "US",
      "tags": [
        "AI cloud"
      ],
      "fields": {
        "category": "AI cloud",
        "regions": null,
        "zones": null,
        "countries": null,
        "datacenters": null,
        "ownership": null,
        "ai_capacity": "1.7 GW+ active power; 4.6 GW+ contracted (Q3 2026)",
        "ai_platform": "NVIDIA GPU clusters for AI training and inference",
        "capex": "USD 9.4bn PP&E purchases in Q3 2026; USD 37bn to 39bn guided for 2026",
        "investment_plan": null,
        "sovereign_cloud": null,
        "locations": null
      },
      "sources": [
        {
          "url": "https://investors.coreweave.com/news/news-details/2026/CoreWeave-Reports-Strong-Third-Quarter-2026-Results/",
          "title": "CoreWeave Q3 2026 results",
          "accessed": "2026-11-11",
          "fields": [
            "ai_capacity",
            "capex"
          ]
        },
        {
          "url": "https://www.coreweave.com/",
          "title": "CoreWeave",
          "accessed": "2026-11-11",
          "fields": [
            "ai_platform",
            "category"
          ]
        }
      ],
      "verifiedAt": "2026-11-11"
    },
    {
      "id": "digitalocean",
      "name": "DigitalOcean",
      "url": "https://www.digitalocean.com/",
      "summary": "20 datacenters across 13 regions, 16 of them open for new resources, with GPU Droplets on NVIDIA H100, H200 and AMD MI300X.",
      "hq": "US",
      "tags": [
        "Regional alternative"
      ],
      "fields": {
        "category": "Regional alternative",
        "regions": 13,
        "zones": null,
        "countries": 8,
        "datacenters": "20 datacenters across 13 regions",
        "ownership": null,
        "ai_capacity": null,
        "ai_platform": "GPU Droplets: NVIDIA H100, H200 and AMD MI300X",
        "capex": null,
        "investment_plan": null,
        "sovereign_cloud": null,
        "locations": null
      },
      "sources": [
        {
          "url": "https://docs.digitalocean.com/platform/regional-availability/",
          "title": "DigitalOcean regional availability",
          "accessed": "2026-11-11",
          "fields": [
            "regions",
            "countries",
            "datacenters",
            "category"
          ]
        },
        {
          "url": "https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/droplets/details/gpu-availability/",
          "title": "DigitalOcean GPU availability",
          "accessed": "2026-11-11",
          "fields": [
            "ai_platform"
          ]
        }
      ],
      "verifiedAt": "2026-11-11"
    },
    {
      "id": "google-cloud",
      "name": "Google Cloud",
      "url": "https://cloud.google.com/",
      "summary": "43 regions and 130 zones on Google-owned infrastructure, TPU pods for AI, and a gigawatt-scale AI hub under construction in India.",
      "hq": "US",
      "tags": [
        "Hyperscale cloud"
      ],
      "fields": {
        "category": "Hyperscale cloud",
        "regions": 43,
        "zones": 130,
        "countries": 29,
        "datacenters": "69 data center locations listed, 32 of them in development",
        "ownership": "Google owns and operates its data centers",
        "ai_capacity": "Visakhapatnam AI hub, India: gigawatt-scale, three campuses (ground broken Apr 2026)",
        "ai_platform": "Cloud TPU v6e (Trillium): 256 chips per pod",
        "capex": "USD 51.4bn (Alphabet) in Q3 2026; USD 195bn to 205bn guided for 2026",
        "investment_plan": null,
        "sovereign_cloud": "Google Cloud Data Boundary, Google Cloud Dedicated (partner-run), GDC air-gapped",
        "locations": null
      },
      "sources": [
        {
          "url": "https://cloud.google.com/about/locations",
          "title": "Google Cloud locations",
          "accessed": "2026-11-11",
          "fields": [
            "regions",
            "zones",
            "category"
          ]
        },
        {
          "url": "https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/regions-zones",
          "title": "Compute Engine regions and zones",
          "accessed": "2026-11-11",
          "fields": [
            "countries"
          ]
        },
        {
          "url": "https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/locations/",
          "title": "Google data center locations",
          "accessed": "2026-11-11",
          "fields": [
            "datacenters",
            "ownership"
          ]
        },
        {
          "url": "https://www.googlecloudpresscorner.com/2026-04-28-Google-Breaks-Ground-on-India-AI-Hub,-Launching-a-National-Industrial-Ecosystem-Alongside-Indias-Digital-Infrastructure-Milestone",
          "title": "Google breaks ground on India AI hub",
          "accessed": "2026-11-11",
          "fields": [
            "ai_capacity"
          ]
        },
        {
          "url": "https://docs.cloud.google.com/tpu/docs/v6e",
          "title": "Cloud TPU v6e",
          "accessed": "2026-11-11",
          "fields": [
            "ai_platform"
          ]
        },
        {
          "url": "https://abc.xyz/investor/events/event-details/2026/2026-Q3-Earnings-Call-2026-Ujou16CTw9/default.aspx",
          "title": "Alphabet Q3 2026 earnings call",
          "accessed": "2026-11-11",
          "fields": [
            "capex"
          ]
        },
        {
          "url": "https://cloud.google.com/sovereign-cloud",
          "title": "Google sovereign cloud",
          "accessed": "2026-11-11",
          "fields": [
            "sovereign_cloud"
          ]
        }
      ],
      "verifiedAt": "2026-11-11"
    },
    {
      "id": "huawei-cloud",
      "name": "Huawei Cloud",
      "url": "https://www.huaweicloud.com/intl/en-us/",
      "summary": "103 availability zones across 34 regions in Asia Pacific, Latin America, Africa, Europe and the Middle East, with Ascend chips behind its AI services.",
      "hq": "CN",
      "tags": [
        "Hyperscale cloud"
      ],
      "fields": {
        "category": "Hyperscale cloud",
        "regions": 34,
        "zones": 103,
        "countries": null,
        "datacenters": null,
        "ownership": null,
        "ai_capacity": null,
        "ai_platform": "ModelArts; Ascend AI Cloud Service on Ascend supernodes",
        "capex": null,
        "investment_plan": null,
        "sovereign_cloud": null,
        "locations": null
      },
      "sources": [
        {
          "url": "https://www.huaweicloud.com/intl/en-us/about/global-infrastructure.html",
          "title": "Huawei Cloud global infrastructure",
          "accessed": "2026-11-11",
          "fields": [
            "regions",
            "zones",
            "category"
          ]
        },
        {
          "url": "https://www.huaweicloud.com/intl/en-us/product/modelarts/ascendaicloud.html",
          "title": "Ascend AI Cloud Service",
          "accessed": "2026-11-11",
          "fields": [
            "ai_platform"
          ]
        }
      ],
      "verifiedAt": "2026-11-11"
    },
    {
      "id": "ibm-cloud",
      "name": "IBM Cloud",
      "url": "https://www.ibm.com/cloud",
      "summary": "13 multizone regions with three zones each, from Dallas to Chennai, plus IBM Sovereign Core for regulated workloads.",
      "hq": "US",
      "tags": [
        "Hyperscale cloud"
      ],
      "fields": {
        "category": "Hyperscale cloud",
        "regions": 13,
        "zones": 39,
        "countries": 9,
        "datacenters": null,
        "ownership": null,
        "ai_capacity": null,
        "ai_platform": "VPC GPU profiles: NVIDIA H100 and H200",
        "capex": "USD 457m net capex (IBM) in Q3 2026",
        "investment_plan": null,
        "sovereign_cloud": "IBM Sovereign Core",
        "locations": null
      },
      "sources": [
        {
          "url": "https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/overview?topic=overview-locations",
          "title": "IBM Cloud regions and data centers",
          "accessed": "2026-11-11",
          "fields": [
            "regions",
            "zones",
            "countries",
            "category"
          ]
        },
        {
          "url": "https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vpc?locale=en&topic=vpc-profiles",
          "title": "IBM VPC profiles",
          "accessed": "2026-11-11",
          "fields": [
            "ai_platform"
          ]
        },
        {
          "url": "https://newsroom.ibm.com/2026-10-21-IBM-RELEASES-THIRD-QUARTER-RESULTS",
          "title": "IBM Q3 2026 results",
          "accessed": "2026-11-11",
          "fields": [
            "capex"
          ]
        },
        {
          "url": "https://www.ibm.com/products/sovereign-core",
          "title": "IBM Sovereign Core",
          "accessed": "2026-11-11",
          "fields": [
            "sovereign_cloud"
          ]
        }
      ],
      "verifiedAt": "2026-11-11"
    },
    {
      "id": "ionos-cloud",
      "name": "IONOS Cloud",
      "url": "https://cloud.ionos.com/",
      "summary": "Nine data center locations in Germany, France, the UK, Spain and the US, with dedicated NVIDIA H200 GPU VMs.",
      "hq": "DE",
      "tags": [
        "Regional alternative"
      ],
      "fields": {
        "category": "Regional alternative",
        "regions": 9,
        "zones": null,
        "countries": 5,
        "datacenters": null,
        "ownership": "Lenexa (Kansas) is IONOS-owned; London, Las Vegas and Newark run in partner facilities",
        "ai_capacity": null,
        "ai_platform": "Cloud GPU VMs: NVIDIA H200",
        "capex": null,
        "investment_plan": null,
        "sovereign_cloud": null,
        "locations": null
      },
      "sources": [
        {
          "url": "https://cloud.ionos.com/data-centers",
          "title": "IONOS Cloud data centers",
          "accessed": "2026-11-11",
          "fields": [
            "regions",
            "countries",
            "ownership",
            "category"
          ]
        },
        {
          "url": "https://docs.ionos.com/cloud/support/general-information/service-catalog",
          "title": "IONOS Cloud service catalog",
          "accessed": "2026-11-11",
          "fields": [
            "ai_platform"
          ]
        }
      ],
      "verifiedAt": "2026-11-11"
    },
    {
      "id": "meta",
      "name": "Meta",
      "url": "https://datacenters.atmeta.com/",
      "summary": "Meta builds for its own apps and models: Prometheus in Ohio is a 1 GW AI cluster and Hyperion in Louisiana scales to 5 GW.",
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          "url": "https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/investor/events/fy-2027/earnings-fy-2027-q1",
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        },
        {
          "url": "https://navercorp.com/en/media/pressReleasesDetail?seq=10034386",
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          "url": "https://openai.com/index/stargate-advances-with-partnership-with-oracle/",
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        "Regional alternative"
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        "countries": 4,
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          "url": "https://www.scaleway.com/en/product-availability-by-region/",
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          "accessed": "2026-11-11",
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          "url": "https://www.scaleway.com/en/h100/",
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        "Regional alternative"
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          "url": "https://www.stackit.de/en/",
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      "hq": "CN",
      "tags": [
        "Hyperscale cloud"
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        },
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          "url": "https://www.tencentcloud.com/products/gpu",
          "title": "Tencent Cloud GPU service",
          "accessed": "2026-11-11",
          "fields": [
            "ai_platform"
          ]
        },
        {
          "url": "https://www.tencent.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Tencent-Announces-2026-Second-Quarter-Results.pdf",
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        {
          "url": "https://yandex.cloud/en/docs/compute/concepts/gpus",
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