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MIIT to strengthen national computing power monitoring system

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What happened: On January 21, the industrial ministry (MIIT) announced the launch of a national automated computing power monitoring system. Some context: The live monitoring system will support the National Unified Computing Power Network (NUCPN), a network of data centers that can pool and distrib...



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