National Cloud Computing Center Opens in Tainan Pushing 'Sovereign AI'

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President Lai Ching-te has inaugurated a new national cloud computing center in Tainan, a key part of the government's "10 big AI projects." The facility is designed to strengthen Taiwan's "sovereign AI" by reducing reliance on foreign tech giants and making computing power more accessible.

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00:00With the press of a button, President Lai Qingda and other officials mark the opening

00:10of a new National Cloud Computing Center in the southern city of Tainan.

00:14Lai says the goal is to make computing power a basic national resource.

00:30The facility is part of the government's 10 big AI projects and is the physical heart

00:42of its sovereign AI strategy, a push to keep Taiwan's critical data and AI infrastructure

00:48on home soil, ensuring the country doesn't rely entirely on foreign tech giants in the

00:53U.S. or in China. And bringing this amount of processing power online is a big step.

01:00This center has enough space for 700 server racks and close to 15 megawatts of computing

01:06power at full capacity. But it's once you go inside that those numbers really hit you.

01:11That noise you hear is the sound of the cloud. Hundreds of servers pushing out hot air,

01:17processing AI chatbots, research data, and more.

01:20The facility helps balance Taiwan's digital infrastructure, which has been mostly concentrated

01:26in the north. By placing critical AI resources in the southern Taiwan science park, they're

01:31boosting the region's high-tech heart. And they're not alone. Tech giants Foxconn and NVIDIA

01:37are launching a massive 100-megawatt AI supercomputer, starting with facilities in nearby Kaohsiung.

01:43And experts say all the new computing capacity is helping Taiwan meet its goal of becoming an AI

01:49powerhouse.

01:50The center will deliver cloud computing power first to the tech companies it's surrounded by,

02:16and eventually to the rest of the world through undersea cables, bringing Taiwan one step closer

02:21to the government's goal of becoming a key digital gateway in Asia.

02:25Klein Wang and Chris Gorin for Taiwan Plus.

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