Category: Industry News

A national computing network is less a construction project than an exercise in coordination: capacity has to be measurable, tradeable and trustable before the nodes can be joined up.

Each additional point on the computing power index is worth 3.5 per mille of digital economy growth. The open question is where the next round of capacity goes — and how much of it is AI.

Recommender systems decide what a billion people see, and almost nobody outside the platform can inspect how. Algorithmic governance is the attempt to change that — and it is harder than drafting a regulation.

Ninety-five universities registered an artificial intelligence major this year. Whether they can staff and teach it is a separate question from whether the country needs the graduates.

Six ministries published the 2021 national green data centre list: 44 sites across telecom, internet, public institutions, energy and finance.

Telecom revenue reached RMB 258.6 billion in January and February, up 9%, with emerging services — cloud, big data, data centres and IoT — growing 34.1%.

Policy is pushing to lower the digital threshold for small manufacturers. The harder half of the arithmetic is the addition — not cheaper tools, but capability.

After this year’s consumer rights broadcast exposed rogue apps, the regulator took 514 of them off the shelves. The compliance bar for app developers is now explicit — and still rising.

Five popular apps ask users to agree to an average of 27,000 characters of terms and privacy policy. Fewer than a quarter of users read any of it — and the clauses that matter are the ones nobody reads.

The national project to move computing demand west is expected to unlock over RMB 100 billion of cloud-related investment a year. Operators and internet giants are lining up on different strengths.