China has activated what may be the world’s largest distributed AI computing pool alongside a high-speed data network that has been planned for more than a decade, according to an official state newspaper.
It said this optical network linked computing centres separated by distance so they could work together almost as efficiently as a single giant computer.
The computational efficiency of a 2,000km (1,243-mile) wide computing power pool formed via this network could reach 98 per cent of that of…




