China’s green-power target for AI data centres runs into the grid
The cleanest way to power a data centre is also the least predictable. The sun sets, the wind drops, and a server hall full of AI accelerators does not care: it wants the same steady draw at three in the morning that it wanted at noon.
That mismatch is the problem now sitting between China’s climate ambitions and its computing ambitions, and according to industry experts cited by Reuters, it is proving harder to solve than the targets imply.
Beijing has made the goal explicit. Authorities want renewables to supply roughly four-fifths of the AI data-centre sector’s total power consumption by 2030, a steep climb from around 11 per cent in 2023.
The country’s 2026 government work report named tighter integration between computing infrastructure and the power supply as a priority, and a green-data-centre action plan requires new projects in the national computing hubs to source most of their...
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