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China’s remote provinces are sprouting data centres in ghost towns
- NYOOOZ Reporter
- Wednesday | 1st July, 2020
The ideal location of a data centre is within 80 km of its core users, experts say. Only half of the computing and storage capacity of China’s 74,000 data centres is utilised, analysts say. But by region, data centres in bigger coastal cities are massively oversubscribed, according to a report by Guizhou-based Hua Chuang Securities. Tibet is planning a 11.8 billion yuan data centre. Xinjiang is eyeing mega data centre clusters with a total of 200,000 server racks by the end of this year.
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