China’s “infrastructure first” approach to developing its artificial intelligence industry will help unlock frontier innovation in the fast-moving technology, according to the president of Kimi model developer Moonshot AI .
“From a support perspective, infrastructure is definitely very important,” Zhang said during the discussion, which was moderated by China Global Television Network anchor Guan Xin.
According to a recent commentary from public policy think tank Brookings Institution, China’s electricity demand for data centres was expected to more than double over the next five years, reaching around 277 terawatt-hours by 2030. That growth was not expected to be a constraint for China, given the country’s historically rapid pace of overall energy expansion, it said.
