At Chindata Group’s big-data industrial park in Lingqiu County of Datong City, hundreds of thousands of servers are running round-the-clock to support high-tech enterprises nationwide in such fields as AI, autonomous driving and quantum communication. The development of the digital economy is advancing in Datong, known as China’s “coal capital.” The coal-producing heartland in north China’s Shanxi Province boasts one eighth of the country’s coal reserves. While phasing out outdated coal production capacity, the city has been looking for alternative industries for long-term growth. With years of efforts, it has become the province’s pioneer in promoting the digital economy in an effort to achieve high-quality development. The city has built a total of 140,000 data center design racks and established a server capacity of up to 2 million units. Its computing output has become a new point of growth in a city which traditionally relied on fossil fuel resources. According to the annual session of the Shanxi Provincial People’s Congress, which concluded on Monday, the value of the province’s digital economy exceeded 500 billion yuan (about 74.6 billion U.S. dollars) by the end of 2022. In addition to Datong, other traditional coal-producing cities of Lyuliang and Yangquan in the […]
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