FT: China's AI Data Center Boom Absorbs Inner Mongolia's Power Glut

FT's series reports that Ulanqab in Inner Mongolia hosts 89 data centers built, under construction or planned, lured by cheap green power and proximity to Beijing. The AI infrastructure boom is absorbing what may be the world's largest local power surplus, with a disused school being converted into a data center.

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