{"id":214965,"date":"2026-05-17T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/17\/china-ramps-up-building-a-national-computing-power-network-as-ai-token-demand-surges\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T08:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T12:45:09","slug":"china-ramps-up-building-a-national-computing-power-network-as-ai-token-demand-surges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/17\/china-ramps-up-building-a-national-computing-power-network-as-ai-token-demand-surges\/","title":{"rendered":"China ramps up building a national computing power network as AI token demand surges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/big-tech\/article\/3353891\/china-ramps-building-national-computing-power-network-ai-token-demand-surges\">China ramps up building a national computing power network as AI token demand surges<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/big-tech\/article\/3353891\/china-ramps-building-national-computing-power-network-ai-token-demand-surges\">https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/big-tech\/article\/3353891\/china-ramps-building-national-computing-power-network-ai-token-demand-surges<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-17 08:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.scmp.com\">www.scmp.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>China is constructing a &#8220;national computing network&#8221; to transform artificial intelligence infrastructure into a public utility as token usage increases.<\/li>\n<li>Tokens, which are basic units of information processed by AI models, are compared to mobile data due to their surge in usage, highlighting the need for an effective infrastructure.<\/li>\n<li>Daily token usage in China exceeded 140 trillion in March, indicating a rapid increase and raising costs for developers and businesses.<\/li>\n<li>The push for AI infrastructure is positioned as a priority alongside other national infrastructure networks such as water, power grids, communication, pipelines and logistics (&#8220;six networks&#8221;).<\/li>\n<li>The State Council has advocated for stronger planning and construction of these six networks, expecting investments to exceed 7 trillion yuan in 2024.<\/li>\n<li>Rising AI model costs pose challenges similar to those faced during the early mobile internet era, prompting the government to ensure accessible and affordable AI infrastructure.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China ramps up building a national computing power network as AI token demand surges https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/big-tech\/article\/3353891\/china-ramps-building-national-computing-power-network-ai-token-demand-surges&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":214966,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/og_image_scmp_generic\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/05\/17\/bd3d9130-54da-4461-b450-2a9abafdbe0c_16336f04.jpg?itok=peuIhQ6Z&v=1779019525","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-214965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214965"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214967,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214965\/revisions\/214967"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}