$37 billion 'Stargate of China' project takes shape — country is converting farmland into data centers to centralize AI compute power

Date: 2025-09-22 14:50:51

China is building its own Stargate in the Wuhu region, where an island is being converted from farmland into massive data centers for a bunch of companies. These servers are close to upper-class urban centers on purpose; they will speed up inference in these regions, while China works to link together remote data centers otherwise.