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The Download: China’s empty data centers, and OpenAI’s new practical image generator

Rhiannon Williams

created: March 26, 2025, 1:10 p.m. | updated: March 31, 2025, 12:21 p.m.

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. China built hundreds of AI data centers to catch the AI boom. Now many stand unused. Just months ago, China’s boom in data center construction was at its height, fueled by both government…

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