Alibaba Cloud plans six-year stroll to 20GW of datacenters, reveals chip to power them
USA alone has 37GW under construction, but Alibaba doesn't think the AI boom will run out of steam
Alibaba, the Chinese tech giant, has outlined its ambition to expand its datacenter fleet to 20GW of capacity over the next six years and unveiled a new chip to power them. CEO Eddie Wu, in his speech at Alibaba's Apsara conference, used analogies comparing AI to light bulbs and steam engines. He stated that AI, or 'Machine Thinking', will one day perform 99.9% of all cognition, driving breakthroughs and tackling challenges across various domains.
Alibaba Cloud aims to play a part in this by scaling its global datacenter fleet to 20GW, filling its datacenter barns with China's most advanced AI chip, the Zhenwu V900. The CEO also announced that Alibaba is starting to train its next-generation model, Qwen 4, with plans for two more successors with 5 and 10 trillion parameters respectively.
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