Beijing users tapping an AI app may not notice that part of their request is shooting 350 kilometers west to Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia, computing there, and racing back—a 700-kilometer round trip concluded imperceptibly. Alibaba's data center on the city's Chahaer Hi-Tech Zone is one reason the grassland outpost of fewer than 1.6 million people has become a center of gravity for China's AI workloads. Firms flock there for a simple combination: abu…
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