{"id":131926,"date":"2025-06-28T08:00:20","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T08:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=131926"},"modified":"2025-06-28T08:00:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T08:00:20","slug":"why-is-china-building-ai-centres-on-the-roof-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=131926","title":{"rendered":"Why is China building AI centres on the roof of the world?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostYajiang-1, a cutting-edge computing centre perched in the cradle of Tibetan civilisation along the roaring Yarlung Tsangbo River, is up and running as part of China\u2019s plan to transform the so-called roof of the world into a strategic frontier for sustainable supercomputing.<br \/>\nThe facility, the first major hub of the \u201cEastern Data, Western Computing\u201d project on the Tibetan Plateau, takes advantage of the region\u2019s extreme environment to make massive artificial intelligence (AI) training tasks \u2013&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3316207\/why-china-building-ai-centres-roof-world?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostYajiang-1, a cutting-edge computing centre perched in the cradle of Tibetan civilisation along the roaring Yarlung Tsangbo River, is up and running as part&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131926"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}