Why the 'Brain' of China's AI Runs on a Grassland: Inside Alibaba's Ulanqab Data Center

Source: Pandaily·2026-09-02 16:24Publish time unverified

Alibaba's Ulanqab data center shows how cheap renewable power and low latency—about 4 milliseconds to Beijing—are making a remote Inner Mongolia city into a center of gravity for China's AI compute.