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$37 billion 'Stargate of China' project takes shape — country is converting farmland into data centers to centralize AI compute power
In order to catch up to America's AI dominance.
Deep in the Yangtze River basin, one of China’s most prosperous economic regions, the country is betting big on rice fields scattered across a 760-acre island, located in the municipality of Wuhu. According to the Financial Times, this agricultural land will soon host some of Beijing's biggest servers dedicated to serving wealthy areas nearby, which will represent one part of the plan to build the " Stargate of China," as described by an executive tied to one of the project's suppliers. In an effort to better compete with America, China is taking a different, measured approach that will see it consolidating already-existing but dispersed data centers into one unified network... to be linked together using Huawei's UB-Mesh tech.
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