{"id":622741,"date":"2026-04-23T06:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T06:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/622741\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T06:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T06:37:09","slug":"chinas-dark-compute-power-could-be-6000-times-higher-than-current-estimates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/622741\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s dark compute power could be 6,000 times higher than current estimates"},"content":{"rendered":"

China has reported a staggering amount of domestic artificial intelligence<\/a> power, pointing to what some experts say could be a \u201cdark pool\u201d of compute thousands of times larger than its public reports suggest.<\/p>\n

According to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), China has achieved 1,882 exaflops \u2013 short for exa floating-point operations per second \u2013 which translates to 1,882 quintillion, or billion billion, calculations per second.<\/p>\n

The figure is more than 6,000 times higher than the country\u2019s computing power as reflected in the Top500 list<\/a>, one of the few available benchmarks for comparing China\u2019s supercomputing progress with other countries, especially the United States.<\/p>\n

While the two are not directly comparable, and the Germany-based ranking of the world\u2019s fastest supercomputers is often seen as an underestimate, the latest data released by the MIIT on Tuesday suggests China\u2019s computing power is rising fast.<\/p>\n

Unlike China, the US \u2013 which dominates the Top500 \u2013 does not publish a single national figure for AI computing power as most of the infrastructure is owned by private companies and measured using different standards.<\/p>\n

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According to estimates from the Stanford Institute for Human-Centred Artificial Intelligence and other policy analyses, the US holds roughly 50 to 75 per cent of global capacity and hosts the largest concentration of AI-focused data centres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China has reported a staggering amount of domestic artificial intelligence power, pointing to what some experts say could…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,276,277,8580,49,48,95,233568,57677,10816,55979,233570,27374,66298,22429,233567,61,1060,182,233569],"class_list":["post-622741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-beijing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-china","tag-dark-matters","tag-el-capitan","tag-germany","tag-international-data-corporation","tag-jack-dongarra","tag-lawrence-livermore-national-laboratory","tag-miit","tag-south-china-morning-post","tag-stanford-institute-for-human-centred-artificial-intelligence","tag-technology","tag-top","tag-us","tag-zhang-yunming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}