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<ul><li>China has long been known to undertake ambitious projects that seek to move resources right across the country to develop areas critical to the economy. </li><li>Looking to replicate its early successes, Beijing has initiated a similar national resource channeling project. This time around, it is targeting data centers, which are seen by Beijing as critical infrastructure for today’s increasingly digitalized economy.</li><li>The main idea of the plan is to boost data centers in the country’s economically poorer but energy-rich western regions, taking part of the data processing workload currently handled predominantly in eastern facilities, where energy is more expensive.</li></ul>

China has long been known to undertake ambitious projects that seek to move resources right across the country to develop areas critical to the economy. Looking to replicate its early successes, Beijing has initiated a similar national resource channeling project. This time around, it is targeting data centers, which are seen by Beijing as critical infrastructure for today’s increasingly digitalized economy.The main idea of the plan is to boost data centers in the country’s economically poorer but energy-rich western regions, taking part of the data processing workload currently handled predominantly in eastern facilities, where energy is more expensive.

Five Things to Know About China’s Mega East-West Data Center Plan