China-linked multi-billion dollar neocloud provider essentially ceases to exist.
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Bain Capital's Bridge Data Centers (BDC) has terminated its contract with Megaspeed International at its Malaysian site after the U.S. government began a probe into whether Megaspeed smuggled restricted Nvidia AI accelerators to China. The company reallocated 68.4 MW of its power capacity from Megaspeed to cloud provider Zenplayer, reports Bloomberg .
The operator informed lenders in February via a memo tied to a recently arranged $2.8 billion credit line that the Singapore-based cloud provider Megaspeed would no longer occupy space at the campus, according to people familiar with the matter cited by Bloomberg . Instead, the U.S.-based Zenplayer will assume the 64.8 MW power allocation originally reserved for Megaspeed. The communication did not specify any reason for the tenant change, but it was distributed to financial institutions backing the loan, which might indicate that BDC wanted to communicate that it does not work with companies suspected of illegal activity.
Removing Megaspeed likely helps BDC limit scrutiny from the U.S. government as oversight of high-end computing hardware flows intensifies amid AI-related competition between the U.S. and China. In addition, from a financing standpoint, maintaining compliant and stable tenants is critical as bank funding depends on predictable revenue streams from customers that do not vanish into thin air due to their illegal activity. This gets even more vital as BDC is in the midst of securing additional capital to support growth, according to Bloomberg .
You may like Supermicro employees accused of smuggling $2.5 billion worth of Nvidia hardware to China China's ByteDance to access 36,000 Blackwell GPU cluster through Malaysia cloud operator The Super Micro AI accelerator smuggling scandal proves how cut-throat the global AI race has become — as global trade evolves, so does export control evasion Earlier this year, the company initiated discussions to raise about $6 billion for expansion into Thailand and simultaneously sought to increase an existing loan package to at least $5 billion to scale its operations in Malaysia. The regional data center market is projected to attract roughly $800 billion in investment by 2030, so it is natural for Bridge Data Centers to get a piece of this pie.
Megaspeed came into the spotlight in October, 2025, when the New York Times published an investigation about smuggling of restricted AI GPUs to China or giving Chinese entities remote access to such hardware that involved Megaspeed, its subsidiary Speedmatrix, and Aivres Systems, a California-based arm of Inspur, a major Chinese technology company.
Megaspeed was formed in 2023 after Chinese gaming and cloud firm 7Road established an offshore entity in Singapore with financial backing from the PRC government. Megaspeed secured large volumes of restricted Nvidia AI accelerators, including H100 and H800, worth as much as $2 billion. Notably, AI GPUs and AI servers were not sourced from Nvidia directly but through Aivres Systems, a U.S.-based subsidiary of Inspur, which was previously sanctioned for supplying supercomputing hardware to the military.
According to U.S. officials cited by The New York Times , Megaspeed allegedly redirected these systems to facilities in Indonesia and Malaysia operated by its subsidiary Speedmatrix, potentially enabling access to restricted AI compute for Chinese users or facilitating re-exports to China.
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