Prices have risen to about 7 million yuan from about 4 million yuan since late last year, thanks to a crackdown on chip smuggling that's made these servers even harder to get. Chinese tech giants are still racing to grab them, even with the risk of US sanctions hanging over. Rising demand and restricted access are driving up AI infrastructure costs in China (AI generated). High-end Nvidia AI servers are reportedly trading at significantly higher prices in China due to supply constraints and export restrictions, though exact figures like “$1 million per unit” vary. Nvidia's B300 AI servers now sell for about 7 million yuan, or roughly US$1 million, in China. Prices have been driven higher as a smuggling crackdown squeezed black market supply while local tech firms continued buying the hardware. 22 billion, a year-on-year increase of 20. Driven by unprecedented demand for computational power from large-scale model training, inference workloads, and national strategic. AI servers in China are specifically designed with high-performance GPUs, TPUs, and specialized processors to accelerate deep learning, natural language processing, and computer vision tasks. That scarcity supports higher realized pricing, better mix (most powerful systems), and longer customer lock-in via ecosystem/software.