'Eastern Data, Western Compute'
National plan siting AI datacenters near cheap western energy
'Eastern Data, Western Compute' (Dongshu Xisuan) is China's national plan to build AI/data-center clusters in energy-rich western provinces (Ningxia, Inner Mongolia, Guizhou) to serve compute demand from the wealthy east. It ties China's AI buildout to hydro, coal, solar and wind capacity and to state-directed datacenter siting.
Hubs
Ningxia, Inner Mongolia, Guizhou
How it fits the stack
'Eastern Data, Western Compute' with what it depends on (above) and what it feeds (below). The figure renders as a crawlable diagram and upgrades to an interactive 3D graph as it scrolls into view.
'Eastern Data, Western Compute' in the AI stack. 'Eastern Data, Western Compute' with its immediate upstream dependencies (top) and downstream dependents (bottom) in the AI value chain. Hover a node in 3D, or read the full relationships below.
Graph data (text) — 3 entities, 2 relationships
- 'Eastern Data, Western Compute' —depends on→ Electricity Grid & Utilities
- 'Eastern Data, Western Compute' —uses→ Solar, Wind & Grid Storage