China’s data centers face little pushback amid AI boom: ‘That’s a matter for the state’

The indifference to data centers in China stands in stark contrast to the sentiment in the United States, where data centers are a political lightning rod.

SHANGHAI — Seventy-year-old Jingsan Ma reclined across piles of trinkets in his antique shop on a recent sweltering day in China’s most populous city. Using his smartphone, Ma asked the popular Chinese AI chatbot Doubao if his blood sugar levels were in a safe range given the heat.

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