GoKawiilInner Mongolia's Ulanqab emerges as hub for China's data centre buildout
In Ulanqab, a farming region in Inner Mongolia known as China's 'potato capital', large-scale data centre construction is underway alongside agricultural land. Workers described the project as proceeding in multiple phases, with one phase completed roughly every year and more planned. These facilities are intended to provide the computing power behind China's AI ambitions.
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The scale and pace of construction suggest Beijing views computing infrastructure as central to its competition with the United States over AI capability. China has set a goal of embedding AI across 90% of industries by 2030, and facilities like these would be foundational to reaching that target, according to the report's framing of the government's stated mission.
- Ulanqab, traditionally an agricultural region, is being rapidly built up with data centre infrastructure.
- Construction is proceeding in successive phases, with workers indicating more expansion is planned.
- The buildout aligns with China's stated goal of integrating AI into 90% of industries and society by 2030.
Source: bbc.co.uk — Watch Our Pick Of Standout Clips Across The Bbc, 2026-09-22
Published there as: “A new skyline of data centres is rising from the rolling plains of rural China”
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