Shanghai has pioneered the synergisation of computing centres with the power grid for peak-load management – a national first – as part of China’s push to enhance computing-grid coordination as its upgrades power infrastructure amid the global artificial intelligence race. Led by State Grid’s Shanghai subsidiary, the trial achieved a peak load reduction of 97.8 megawatts within a two-hour window, marking the country’s largest single city-level adjustment of computing power load, according to a...