{"slug": "changzhou-says-it-is-building-chinas-first-city-level-clean-power-token-factory", "title": "Changzhou says it is building China’s first city-level clean-power token factory", "summary": "Changzhou, a city in eastern China's Jiangsu province, announced plans to build the country's first city-level clean-power token factory, aiming to produce 60 trillion tokens annually to support AI computing demands with renewable energy. The project, involving Alibaba Cloud and Wangsu Science and Technology, is designed to optimize power usage and increase token supply efficiency by 62.5%.", "body_md": "# Changzhou says it is building China’s first city-level clean-power token factory\n\nProject is expected to churn out 60 trillion tokens a year, driving the country’s AI clean-power ambitions forward\n\n[artificial intelligence computing demands](https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3355851/china-plans-compute-futures-shanghai-ai-computing-demand-surges?module=inline&pgtype=article)with clean energy.\n\n[World Artificial Intelligence Conference](https://www.scmp.com/tech/policy/article/3360858/chinas-xi-jinping-addresses-world-ai-conference-us-tech-rivalry-heats?module=inline&pgtype=article)in Shanghai.\n\nThe city in the eastern Jiangsu province did not provide a timeline for completion of the initiative.\n\nThe facility would connect directly to renewable energy plants under a national policy that allowed green power to bypass public grids, the statement said.\n\nThe design aims to optimise power usage, with token output expected to rise 62.5 per cent using the same computing power resources, significantly enhancing token supply efficiency and economic viability.\n\nThe agreement, signed on Saturday, involves seven parties including Alibaba Cloud and Wangsu Science and Technology, a provider of information infrastructure platform services. Alibaba Cloud is the cloud computing unit of Alibaba Group Holding, which owns the South China Morning Post.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/changzhou-says-it-is-building-chinas-first-city-level-clean-power-token-factory", "canonical_source": "https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3361089/changzhou-says-it-building-chinas-first-city-level-clean-power-token-factory?utm_source=rss_feed", "published_at": "2026-07-19 08:00:12+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-19 08:04:18.135847+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-infrastructure", "ai-policy"], "entities": ["Changzhou", "Alibaba Cloud", "Wangsu Science and Technology", "Alibaba Group", "South China Morning Post"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/changzhou-says-it-is-building-chinas-first-city-level-clean-power-token-factory", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/changzhou-says-it-is-building-chinas-first-city-level-clean-power-token-factory.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/changzhou-says-it-is-building-chinas-first-city-level-clean-power-token-factory.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/changzhou-says-it-is-building-chinas-first-city-level-clean-power-token-factory.jsonld"}}