Next Big Future July 3, 2024 The National Energy Administration (NEA) reports China added 217GW of solar power and 76GW of wind power in 2023 – to reach a total capacity of 1,050GW. They need 15 Tesla Megapack factories (150,000 per year) worth of fixed storage every year for the additional wind and solar. This will increase as China accelerates solar and wind installation to meet AI data center demand. By May 2024, China had installed 690GW of solar capacity and 460GW of wind, which made up 38% of its power generation capacity. China is averaging about 1 MWh/year (2.8kWh/day) […]
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China versus USA in AI potential
Next Big Future March 19, 2018 According to Oxford and the Future of Humanity report on China’s AI plans China is still far behind on hardware but ahead in mobile and data and lagging in algorithms and commercial AI companies. China has relied on imports and acquisitions to boost the most immediately relevant aspects of AI hardware. As this strategy has come under more scrutiny by the U.S. and EU, China is promoting national champions in its domestic chip-making industry and making long-term bets on powerful supercomputing facilities… read more.