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As US votes against data centers, China is all in on building them | Meanwhile in Asia

The US midterm elections proved there’s a growing backlash against AI and the infrastructure required to power it. But in China, data centers are going up - fast. CNN’s Simone McCarthy tells Ivan Watson and Kunal Sehgal what it was like to visit a city in Inner Mongolia transformed by block upon block of hulking data centers - and discusses how China’s fuelling their AI revolution. Stream the rest of Meanwhile in Asia on the CNN app: Stream more on CNN with an All Access subscription:

November 14, 2026

The US midterm elections proved there’s a growing backlash against AI and the infrastructure required to power it. But in China, data centers are going up – fast. CNN’s Simone McCarthy tells Ivan Watson and Kunal Sehgal what it was like to visit a city in Inner Mongolia transformed by block upon block of hulking data centers – and discusses how China’s fuelling their AI revolution.

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