Two Trillion — China's $295B AI Grid (News MV)

China is preparing to spend 2 trillion yuan ($295 billion) over the next five years on a nationwide network of AI data centers — the largest national computing infrastructure commitment ever announced. The plan, reported by Bloomberg on June 9, 2026, would connect fragmented regional hubs into a unified national computing grid, running on 80% domestic chips (primarily Huawei Ascend), operated by state-owned telecoms China Mobile and China Telecom. Target regions include Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, and Gansu, where land is cheap and power costs are low. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology is targeting 2028 for the full unified system.

China already has 13.7 million standard server racks, 42 large-scale AI computing clusters, and 1.59 million PFLOPS of computing capacity — second globally. Its AI industry counts 6,200+ companies and $176.9 billion in value.

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