“Eastern Data, Western Compute” is Fake

We built an interactive microsite for this story! Check it out here and let us know if you’d like to see more ChinaTalk reports in this format.From time to time, people come to us hoping to pitch a story on “Eastern Data, Western Compute” 东数西算, the government initiative to route more of China’s data center and computing buildout away from the crowded eastern seaboard and toward national compute hubs in the country’s interior. In theory, western China has land, energy, cooler climates, and underd...