The Unlikely Place at the Center of China’s AI Boom
THE SO WHAT
Inner Mongolia’s rise as an AI data center hub shows how cheap power and land can outweigh proximity to talent. If you’re siting large training or inference clusters, your real competition for locations is now global industrial zones, not just traditional tech metros.
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