ChinAI #377: American Data Center Hegemony - the Center-Satellite Structure
Feature Translation: In the US-China AI race, the deciding factor isn’t compute, it’s another thing
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Key points
- For instance, this Newsweek article observes, “Beijing is only too happy to spread its tech through existing channels like the Belt and Road Initiative infrastructure export program.” It’s always clarifying to read how Chinese experts view the situation on the competition over the global deployment of data centers.
- The winner of last week’s Around the Horn issue, a Beijing Cultural Review essay published back in 2024 by Yanhui He, researcher at Peking University’s school of journalism, presents a very different perspective: the U.S. maintains hegemony in global data center construction, based on a “center-satellite” structure.
- In 2022, the Indian industrial giant Adani Group signed a cloud computing contract with Google to migrate its core applications and data to Google Cloud, while the African bank NedBank announced that Microsoft would manage its customer data.”
- Where does China fit into this center-satellite structure?
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- [1]ChinAI #377: American Data Center Hegemony - the Center-Satellite StructureChinAI (Jeffrey Ding) · Oct 12, 11:18 AM
Feature Translation: In the US-China AI race, the deciding factor isn’t compute, it’s another thing
For instance, this Newsweek article observes, “Beijing is only too happy to spread its tech through existing channels like the Belt and Road Initiative infrastructure export program.” It’s always clarifying to read how Chinese experts view the situation on the competition over the global deployment of data centers.
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