On the 8th, Taipei Mayor Chiang Wanan announced without warning that he plans to relocate Songshan Airport and convert 300 hectares of land into an "AI park". Later, the Executive Yuan revealed that the Taipei City Government has never raised relevant discussions in the past four years, triggering heated discussions from all walks of life. In this regard, Shen Rongqin, an associate professor at York University in Canada, bluntly said that in addition to the difficulty of relocating the computer, establishing an AI park is no less difficult than relocating an airport. Jiang Wanan's supporting measures not only avoid the most important issues, but more fatally lack power and infrastructure planning. "Jiang Wanan claims to be a Silicon Valley lawyer, but he doesn't even know this basic knowledge."
Shen Rongqin posted on Facebook today that many people have mentioned the difficulty of relocating Songshan Airport, but another difficulty that is not less difficult than relocating Songshan Airport is how to establish an AI park. Jiang Wanan's package only mentions the least important point of "convenient transportation", but ignores the most critical aspect of electricity.
Shen Rongqin pointed out that the most important infrastructure of the AI park is not transportation, but the computing center and data center. This requires a lot of electricity. The power consumption of a large data center is about the same as that of Hsinchu City. However, power generation in Taipei City only accounts for 2% of the electricity, most of which is China Power to the North or South to the North. Any AI park without power planning is just empty talk on paper.
Shen Rongqin questioned that Jiang Wanan claimed to be a lawyer in Silicon Valley, but he didn't even know this basic knowledge; and he had been in the local area for ten years from the local legislator to the mayor. Not only had he never mentioned it in the past, but the package he was now proposing did not include any electricity and a plan to build a substation. It made people wonder whether he took this issue seriously or just raised it in a hurry during the election.
Shen Rongqin added that in addition, large amounts of electricity will generate a large amount of heat, which requires a large amount of water to dissipate heat, as well as a large amount of optical fiber and other communication equipment. Jiang Wanan did not mention these at all, but talked about AI parks, which is like child's play. It is really difficult for people to believe in the policy planning capabilities of him and his staff.
Netizens left bitter messages, "Chopping down trees, consuming electricity and heat, realizing the Hotpot policy step by step", "Demolishing the Zhongzheng Temple and replacing it with a nuclear power plant will solve the problem", "He is just changing the topic, don't take him seriously!", "He only memorizes the manuscript, don't expect anything else.", "Now. Everyone can finally understand what Shen really meant when he said, "If Jiang Wanan is serious, Taipei will not be able to handle it!", "I thought it would be the Taipei Raw Milk Park," and "People in the Minsheng Community will not let him build a large substation next to it. We really don't want to destroy the iron tickets and turn them into waste."
