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Oct 15, 2026 · Industry Insights
China's AI Data Center Boom: 24 GW Capacity, 12-Month Builds, and Five Giants' Divergent Strategies
SemiAnalysis's building-level survey of 1,000+ Chinese data centers reveals 24 GW of live IT capacity—second only to the U.S.—debunking vacancy myths by showing traditional retail space is empty while AI-grade wholesale power is scarce, and details how three construction modes deliver 100 MW campuses in 12 months and how ByteDance, Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu, and Huawei pursue sharply different compute strategies.
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