Beijing Bets $295 Billion on AI: China’s Largest Infrastructure Project of the Decade
$295 billion. Five years. One national AI grid. China’s infrastructure plan just escalated the global AI race to a new level.
$295 billion. Five years. One national AI grid. China’s infrastructure plan just escalated the global AI race to a new level.
The world’s first AI satellite runs DeepSeek. China’s orbital computing constellation is scaling fast. And its space-based intelligence is already tracking US military movements in real time.
Western media spent a decade describing a dystopia that never fully arrived. The reality of China’s social credit system in 2026 is more complex — and far more consequential for global business.
Elon Musk said it out loud in Davos: the limiting factor for AI is electricity — and China’s advantage is growing. Here is the infrastructure story that nobody is telling.
One soldier. A tablet. Ninety-six autonomous drones that find, identify, and destroy targets without a human pulling the trigger. China’s Atlas system just changed the nature of war.