$37 Billion 'Stargate of China' Project Takes Shape — Country Is Converting Farmland Into Data Centers to Centralize AI Compute Power

‘Stargate of China’ plan emerges to challenge US as AI superpower

On a 760-acre island on the Yangtze River, rice fields are being turned into a series of huge server farms as part of China’s effort to consolidate its position as an artificial intelligence superpower. The building work in the farming city of Wuhu is an effort to “build the Stargate of China”, said an executive […] The post ‘Stargate of China’ plan emerges to challenge US as AI superpower appeared first on OODAloop.

$37 billion 'Stargate of China' project takes shape — country is converting farmland into data centers to centralize AI compute power

China is building its own Stargate in the Wuhu region, where an island is being converted from farmland into massive data centers for a bunch of companies. These servers are close to upper-class urban centers on purpose; they will speed up inference in these regions, while China works to link together remote data centers otherwise.

China turns farmland into AI data hub with $37B investment - Cryptopolitan

China has begun transforming farmland into a major tech hub, aiming to strengthen its role in artificial intelligence. On a 760-acre island on the Yangtze River, vast rice fields in the city of Wuhu are being cleared for server farms.  An executive linked with a supplier for one of these projects described the effort as building the “Stargate of China,” referencing a $500 billion U.S. data center plan by Oracle, OpenAI, and SoftBank. While small…