{"id":920413,"date":"2026-10-08T08:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T08:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/920413\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T08:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T08:26:10","slug":"chinas-artificial-intelligence-data-centre-buildout-takes-over-inner-mongolia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/920413\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s artificial intelligence data centre buildout takes over Inner Mongolia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eleanor Olcott<\/p>\n<p>Oct 8, 2026 \u2013 3.43pm<\/p>\n<p>China is building data centres at rapid speed across its energy-rich hinterland, as Beijing seeks to turn abundant electricity and cheap land into an advantage in the global race to develop AI.<\/p>\n<p>The push is creating vast new computing hubs such as Ulanqab in Inner Mongolia, where 89 data centres are built or planned. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/street-talk\/firmus-pulls-down-ipo-docs-as-bankers-try-shrinking-7-9b-ipo-20261008-p613ry\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AI infrastructure buildout<\/a> is among the fastest and biggest anywhere in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"_137dbe642694dac0-source\">Financial Times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eleanor Olcott Oct 8, 2026 \u2013 3.43pm China is building data centres at rapid speed across its energy-rich&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":920414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-920413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920413","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=920413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/920414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}