The US has currently 45 hyper-scale data centers operational, while China has only 6. The US has 21 more under construction and China just 1. And the Chinese ones are small in comparison to the US ones.
Even if we take numbers from China with some skepticism, the difference is stark. Yet, they are still supposed the be in a head-to-head competition on AI.
How can that be?
Perhaps "compute" is not the deciding factor and the hyper-scale build-out is a dead-end, generated by group-think and speculative investment.
https://aidatacenterindex.com/compare/united-states-vs-china/
felix stalder
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