In 2022, China began construction of the world’s largest AI system.

The initiative, called “Eastern Data, Western Compute” relocated energy-intensive data center operations to West China, where electricity production is abundant.

Later, China’s open-source large-language models and breakthroughs in semiconductors allowed for AI inference to be performed at the world’s lowest cost.

China now exports AI output, and its Token Economy transforms cheap power and data processing into high-profit-margin services.