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Official data: China's intelligent computing capacity reaches 2,185 EFLOPS
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20 July 2026
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Fusion42 · 20 July 2026 · Fusion42 review
China's intelligent computing capacity reached 2,185 EFLOPS as of end-June 2026, with a 71.4% national utilization rate, according to official Ministry of Industry and Information Technology data.
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◆ The Wire takeaway
China now has 2,185 EFLOPS of dedicated AI compute with 71% utilisation - the infrastructure is built and running hot. If you're selling AI chips, software, cooling, or power systems into data centres, the customer base in China is now larger and more concentrated than anywhere else.
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AI Infrastructure · compute-capacity · ai-infrastructure · china-tech · data-centers