{"id":46711,"date":"2025-08-06T02:00:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T02:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/46711\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T02:00:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T02:00:17","slug":"shanghai-targets-5-new-data-centres-in-2025-as-china-boosts-ai-computing-capacity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/46711\/","title":{"rendered":"Shanghai targets 5 new data centres in 2025 as China boosts AI computing capacity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/shanghai?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Shanghai<\/a> aims to complete at least five new large-scale data centres by the end of the year to meet rising demand for computing power, as China enhances its digital infrastructure to support its artificial intelligence ambitions.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The initiative is expected to elevate the city\u2019s AI computing capacity beyond 100 exaflops, according to a recent plan from the Shanghai Communications Administration, made public on Friday. Exaflop is a measuring unit for computer speed, equivalent to 1 quintillion floating-point operations per second.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">For reference, China\u2019s computing power reached 246 exaflops as of June last year, placing it second only to the US, according to data from the state-backed China Academy of Information and Communications Technology.<\/p>\n<p>Since <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/deepseek?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">DeepSeek<\/a> introduced its high-performance, open-source reasoning model in January, China has seen \u201ca new wave of data centre construction across the country\u201d, according to a report published by Moody\u2019s Ratings on Monday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">China was expected to remain the largest data centre market in the Asia-Pacific region, with growth projected to accelerate at about 20 per cent annually through 2030, as the sector enjoyed \u201cstrong policy support\u201d and domestic operators were set to receive increased government backing, the report said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A data centre in southwest China\u2019s Guizhou province. Photo: Xinhua\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/50896018-caea-479a-ad38-b27a323daa39_69109cb1.jpg\" title=\"A data centre in southwest China\u2019s Guizhou province. Photo: Xinhua\"\/>A data centre in southwest China\u2019s Guizhou province. Photo: Xinhua<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Shanghai is the latest example of how local governments in China are driving the development of AI infrastructure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shanghai aims to complete at least five new large-scale data centres by the end of the year to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[256,40164,13438,1337,254,27978,64,63,40165,3686,5004,512,281,257,15778,28300,38007,2490,18369,8393,2577,23221,5044,4933,40163,40162,105,40166,3281,1055],"class_list":["post-46711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-computing","tag-ai","tag-alibaba-group-holding","tag-amazon-com","tag-apple","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-asia-pacific-region","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-baidu","tag-beijing","tag-chatgpt","tag-china","tag-cloud","tag-computing","tag-data-center","tag-deepseek","tag-digital-infrastructure","tag-donald-trump","tag-large-language-model","tag-llm","tag-microsoft","tag-moodys","tag-openai","tag-shanghai","tag-softbank-group","tag-stargate-project","tag-technology","tag-tencent-holdings","tag-trump","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}