{"id":415692,"date":"2025-09-11T11:48:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T11:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/415692\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T11:48:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T11:48:25","slug":"china-eyes-nationwide-ai-computing-network-as-tech-race-with-us-heats-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/415692\/","title":{"rendered":"China eyes nationwide AI computing network as tech race with US heats up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">China is making progress in unifying the country\u2019s scattered data centres into a nationwide computing network to drive artificial intelligence applications, according to the data centre builders.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">China\u2019s Open Data Centre Committee (ODCC), an organisation representing the country\u2019s key AI infrastructure investors such as Alibaba Group Holding and China Telecom, hosted a three-day conference this week to discuss how to transform the country\u2019s far-flung data centres into one unified network.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">As of the end of June, China had built 10.85 million standard AI stacks, or sets of servers and tools for AI applications, up 30.7 per cent from a year ago, according to China\u2019s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT). The growth was driven by continued AI computing investments by state-owned telecommunications network operators &#8211; including China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom &#8211; as well as private Big Tech firms such as Tencent Holdings, Baidu and Alibaba.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">While China is denied access to advanced US chips, the country\u2019s data centre builders are finding innovative ways to boost computing performance and share best practices.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"China\u2019s Open Data Centre Committee hosted its annual conference in Beijing this week. Photo: Ben Jiang\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/b28cc0a0-d43f-4f3d-9c14-ecd1dca076a6_4ddecf7b.jpg\" title=\"China\u2019s Open Data Centre Committee hosted its annual conference in Beijing this week. Photo: Ben Jiang\"\/>China\u2019s Open Data Centre Committee hosted its annual conference in Beijing this week. Photo: Ben Jiang<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">He Zekun, a member of ODCC\u2019s network working group, said at the conference that there had been breakthroughs in improving inter-chip communications in server clusters that use a mix of foreign and domestic semiconductors, which was important for AI training and inferencing as large amounts of data are exchanged through chips.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China is making progress in unifying the country\u2019s scattered data centres into a nationwide computing network to drive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3164],"tags":[521,51,1395,3284,1700,3749,388,12,391,47141,93,53,16,15,978,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-415692","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-computing","8":"tag-asia","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-china","11":"tag-computing","12":"tag-economy","13":"tag-hong-kong","14":"tag-lifestyle","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-opinion","17":"tag-south-china-morning-post","18":"tag-sport","19":"tag-technology","20":"tag-uk","21":"tag-united-kingdom","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115185510491229020","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}