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Updated · China Daily · Aug 19
SenseTime Partners on Hong Kong AI Data Center Targeting 40,000 PetaFLOPS by 2030
Updated
Updated · China Daily · Aug 19

SenseTime Partners on Hong Kong AI Data Center Targeting 40,000 PetaFLOPS by 2030

3 articles · Updated · China Daily · Aug 19

Summary

  • June's deal with Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corp will build the city's largest domestically developed AI data center, with first-phase capacity of 3,000 petaFLOPS due by end-2026.
  • SenseTime says generative AI has shifted overseas demand from stand-alone models to end-to-end offerings, making local inference capacity and integrated computing, models and applications the new export focus.
  • Hong Kong is central to that strategy because it combines Chinese and international compliance systems, strong global connectivity and access to Greater Bay Area talent, the company said.
  • The project follows SenseTime's 2025 deployment of China's first overseas domestic computing cluster in the Middle East through a joint venture with Saudi Arabia's PIF.
  • SenseTime, active in more than a dozen overseas markets, sees AI infrastructure exports as a broader upgrade in Chinese tech's global push beyond apps and hardware.

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