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Beijing Treats AI Computing Power as a Public Utility, Reshaping Infrastructure Investment
Industry19 MAY 2026Source: SCMP China Tech

Beijing Treats AI Computing Power as a Public Utility, Reshaping Infrastructure Investment

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China's state media is now explicitly framing AI computing capacity as national infrastructure on par with power grids and water networks—a framing that signals accelerating government capital deployment into data centers, energy storage, and computing networks that will reshape supplier and…

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