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Why the 'Brain' of China's AI Runs on a Grassland: Inside Alibaba's Ulanqab Data Center

Alibaba's Ulanqab data center shows how cheap renewable power and low latency—about 4 milliseconds to Beijing—are making a remote Inner Mongolia city into a center of gravity for China's AI compute.

Why the 'Brain' of China's AI Runs on a Grassland: Inside Alibaba's Ulanqab Data Center

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Alibaba's Ulanqab data center shows how cheap renewable power and low latency—about 4 milliseconds to Beijing—are making a remote Inner Mongolia city into a center of gravity for China's AI compute.

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Alibaba's Ulanqab data center shows how cheap renewable power and low latency—about 4 milliseconds to Beijing—are making a remote Inner Mongolia city into a center of gravity for China's AI compute.

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