China is building an AI future far from its biggest cities

According to BNEF’s analysis, China is on pace to more than double the capacity of computing equipment in active use in its data centres – known as live IT capacity – in the next five years. — Pexels

Set in rolling grassland, Ulanqab is an unlikely technological hub.

Yet this modest city of less than 2 million people in Inner Mongolia has found itself on the front line of China’s efforts to relocate computing power away from its crowded eastern megacities and out to its western regions, where both space and inexpensive green energy are abundant.

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根据彭博新能源财经（BNEF）的分析，未来五年内，中国数据中心正在使用的计算设备容量（即实时IT容量）有望增长一倍以上。——Pexels

乌兰察布坐落在连绵起伏的草原上，不太可能成为一个科技中心。

然而，这座位于内蒙古、人口不足 200 万的小城，却发现自己站在了中国将计算能力从拥挤的东部大城市转移到西部地区的最前沿，因为西部地区空间充足，而且拥有廉价的绿色能源。

科技巨头称，人工智能数据中心现在的耗电量降低了。

中国正将数据中心拓展至农村地区，以期为人工智能提供动力。

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