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AI data center expansion in Inner Mongolia

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Inner Mongolia is becoming a central hub for China’s digital infrastructure due to its low energy costs, cooler climate, and proximity to Beijing. Major technology firms are increasingly establishing a presence in the region to support energy-intensive computing needs. ByteDance is reportedly in preliminary discussions to expand its computing infrastructure in Ulanqab’s Jining district, potentially integrating five to six gigawatts of new compute power. This massive expansion could require an investment estimated between 800 billion and 960 billion yuan. DeepSeek is advancing plans for a large-scale data center in Ulanqab that would deploy at least 160,000 Huawei Ascend 950DT AI accelerators. While the facility The order is intended estimated to serve as be worth approximately $2.56 billion and marks a major hub significant shift toward domestic hardware for AI inference, the company reportedly continues to rely company’s inference needs. While DeepSeek has previously relied on Nvidia hardware for model training. This shift toward domestic training, leadership has noted that while Huawei’s hardware aligns with China’s ‘Eastern Data, Western Compute’ initiative and aims may require more units to mitigate the impact of United States export restrictions on advanced semiconductors. However, match the scale performance of a single Nvidia GPU, the DeepSeek project faces significant hurdles. Huawei currently lacks technology is “increasingly viable” for their requirements. The planned facility is expected to consume enough electricity to power roughly 750,000 homes. However, fulfilling the order may take over a year due to Huawei’s limited production capacity to meet full demand, and shortages in high-end memory and other components are expected to limit the output of the 950DT chips components. DeepSeek has reportedly sought assistance from Beijing to expedite the low hundreds allocation and delivery of thousands this year. these chips.

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