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China’s $37B Farmland-to-AI Transformation Reshapes Data Infrastructure
China’s $37B Farmland-to-AI Transformation Reshapes Data Infrastructure
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China is converting 760 acres of Yangtze River farmland into a strategic AI hub, mirroring global data center ambitions at a smaller scale. The Wuhu "Data Island" now hosts four major facilities operated by China Telecom, Huawei, and state carriers, positioning itself as a computational nexus for the Yangtze River Delta megacities.
The bifurcated strategy allocates remote centers like Guizhou and Gansu for large language model training, while urban-proximate server farms handle inference workloads. "China is triaging scarce compute for maximum economic output," observes Ryan Fedasiuk, a former State Department China analyst, highlighting Beijing's push to consolidate fragmented data infrastructure.
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