Why AI and energy are key to global power

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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-31/solar-will-soon-pass-coal-as-china-s-top-power-capacity-source

 

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Envision Group completes massive, green-energy-powered AI data center in Inner Mongolia

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Envision Group completes massive, green-energy-powered AI data center in Inner Mongolia
Updated: 2026-08-06 21:32

Envision Turns Wind Power Into AI Power in Northern China

Green tech company Envision Group announced the completion of its largest AI data center on Thursday in Ulaanqab, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, setting what they claim to be global benchmarks for computing density and green-power integration in AI infrastructure.

According to a Shanghai Securities News report, the data center draws on green energy to power its building area of 120,000 square meters, approximately the size of 14 standard soccer fields. One million microchips work together to create a one-million-petaflop computing capacity, which is equivalent to roughly 2 million laptops.

At present, domestic AI computing is accelerating toward 100,000-chip and even million-chip interconnectivity. Envision claims its new cluster has a total planned capacity of 2 gigawatts, which, when completed, will give it the world's highest token output capacity.

To power the cluster, the data center leverages the region's abundant wind resources. Through self-built wind farms and dedicated transmission lines, it achieves direct green power supply.

Zheng Zihao, general manager of the group's Artificial Intelligence Data Center, which oversees the new node, said it is primarily designed to address the urgent demand from leading technology and AI companies for large-scale adoption of domestically produced computing power and is committed to delivering a green energy AI computing infrastructure solution for China's computing needs.

"Looking ahead, we will bring replicable Chinese AI data center solutions to regions around the world facing urgent computing demand, weak energy infrastructure, and power shortages," Zheng added.

 

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There are 4 types of coal. China is very fortunate to have great amounts of high quality coal while other countries often have coal but is mostly useless outside of cooking and warmth.

 

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There are 4 types of coal. China is very fortunate to have great amounts of high quality coal while other countries often have coal but is mostly useless outside of cooking and warmth.

There are 4 large strategic resources in the world: coal, iron ore, oil and rubber. Aside from coal that China has abundant quality supplies, China has abundant iron ore but poor quality, and China is short on oil reserve and rubber supplies.

 

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There are 4 large strategic resources in the world: coal, iron ore, oil and rubber. Aside from coal that China has abundant quality supplies, China has abundant iron ore but poor quality, and China is short on oil reserve and rubber supplies.

Yeah what we dont have we have to buy. Luckily we got plenty of rare earth which is a bonus and building more oil pipelines to Russia and central Asia. Central Asia is very happy because prior to Chinese oil pipelines, they had no choice but to transport it thru russian pipelines at lower profits.

Its okay to rely on others for trade because no country has everything themselves in the modern world. Saying that, we should build larger stockpiles of any strategic resources.