“Inside China's Race to Build the World's Data Centers” — what this page in the network covers. Chinese companies are turning to prefabricated construction to build data centers faster and more efficiently, a method that could reshape how the infrastructure behind artificial intelligence is delivered. As America's AI-driven data center boom accelerates, China's BrightRay hopes to win US business with its modular approach. But growing US-China tensions, national-security concerns and restrictions on some Chinese-made products could limit that opportunity, raising questions about whether cost and speed advantages can overcome political and regulatory barriers.
The report weighs the appeal of modular construction against the obstacles facing Chinese firms in the American market. CNBC's China Bureau Chief Eunice Yoon reports on the companies, the technology and the stakes involved as both countries race to build the computing capacity that will underpin the next wave of AI development. The full version stays on the original page, which this listing opens directly.