According to a report by Bloomberg, China is actively constructing AI data centers for military use in the GobI Desert, particularly in Hami Yuhu County, Xinjiang, which is the site of the last battle of the Chinese Civil War in 1949.

Currently, 39 data center construction projects have been approved in Xinjiang and Qinghai, with 70% of the computing power concentrated in Yuhu County. These centers are expected to require at least 14,000 AI servers, translating to at least 115,000 NVIDIA H100 or H200 chips. Despite U.S. restrictions on advanced chip supplies, China's AI infrastructure continues to expand rapidly.

In 2022, China announced the "East Data West Computing" project, intending to establish eight national computing hubs, but Xinjiang was not included. However, as China aims to create a "Cloud Silk Road" connecting the Belt and Road Initiative with cross-country computing networks, Xinjiang represents a key area within China's domestic "computing corridor." The U.S. government appears to overlook this emerging AI cluster in the remote western desert region.