
The data centre in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, has completed its expansion, tripling its processing capacity to 20,100 petaflops, with 16,700 petaflops dedicated to AI and smart computing, according to Inner Mongolia Daily and a 2024 report from People’s Posts and Telecommunications News.
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The data centre in Hohhot previously had a processing capacity of 6,700 petaflops as reported in a 2024 report by People’s Posts and Telecommunications News.
The expansion of its data centre in Hohhot was recently completed, with total processing capacity increased to 20,100 petaflops, according to a report by Inner Mongolia Daily on Monday.
That was triple its previous capacity of 6,700 petaflops, according to data from a 2024 report by the state-run People’s Posts and Telecommunications News.
A petaflop is a measurement of a computer’s speed and is equal to a quadrillion operations per second. Of that total, 16,700 petaflops were dedicated to artificial intelligence and smart computing tasks, the Monday report said.

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