The Hong Kong Science and Technology Park (HKSTP) and SenseTime, a Chinese synthetic intelligence agency headquartered and listed within the metropolis, have partnered to build a home-grown AI data centre by 2030 to assist the sector’s industrialisation.
The data centre shall be inbuilt three levels, with section one anticipated for completion by the top of this yr, concentrating on 40,000 petaflops – a measure of computing energy used to prepare AI fashions – by 2030, the HKSTP stated on Tuesday.
Terry Wong Ping-sau, HKSTP’s CEO, stated the partnership would “propel the thriving development of Hong Kong’s ‘AI+’ Information and Technology ecosystem,” shifting town in direction of AI industrialisation and the AI-enabled transformation of industries.
He additionally stated that the Science Park had attracted greater than 500 AI corporations with over 5,000 AI specialists.
Xu Li, chairman and CEO of SenseTime, stated the corporate and the Science Park have been “highly complementary partners” that might build deep industrial-chain protection to drive end-to-end innovation throughout the sector.
He stated SenseTime might leverage Hong Kong’s strengths in finance and authorized companies to complement mainland Chinese industries, forming a “train on the mainland, process in Hong Kong, serve the world” mannequin to carry AI merchandise abroad and serve worldwide shoppers.
