“China has been making stunning strides in building intelligent computing centres,” Omdia chief analyst Lian Jye said on Thursday. “As long as China keeps with the current pace, the country’s [computing infrastructure] gap with the US will narrow further … in spite of the Stargate Project”.
Official data showed that about 250 advanced data centres and other computing facilities were being completed or were under construction across the mainland at the end of June last year.
The China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, a scientific research institute under the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), estimated that the nation’s total scale of computing power in 2023 reached 230 eflops – a unit for measuring the speed of a computer system, equal to one quintillion floating-point operations a second – which put the country behind the US.
