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As US votes against data centers, China is all in on building them | Meanwhile in Asia

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The US midterm elections proved there’s a growing backlash against AI and the infrastructure required to power it. But in China, data centers are going up – fast. CNN’s Simone McCarthy tells Ivan Watson and Kunal Sehgal what it was like to visit a city in Inner Mongolia transformed by block upon block of hulking data centers – and discusses how China’s fuelling their AI revolution.

0:00 China is building AI data centers at an astonishing pace
4:08 Meanwhile in the US
6:25 China’s AI infrastructure push & economic goals
8:19 China’s largest hurdle in the AI sprint
12:03 China’s advantage and disadvantages in AI infrasturcture

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