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Eric Jiang

The Hong Kong Science and Technology Park (HKSTP) and SenseTime, a Chinese artificial intelligence firm headquartered and listed in the city, have partnered to build a home-grown AI data centre by 2030 to support the sector’s industrialisation.
The data centre will be built in three stages, with phase one expected for completion by the end of this year, targeting 40,000 petaflops – a measure of computing power used to train AI models – by 2030, the HKSTP said on Tuesday.
Terry Wong Ping-sau, HKSTP’s CEO, said the partnership would “propel the thriving development of Hong Kong’s ‘AI+’ Information and Technology ecosystem”, moving the city towards AI industrialisation and the AI-enabled transformation of industries.
He also said that the Science Park had attracted more than 500 AI companies with over 5,000 AI specialists.
Xu Li, chairman and CEO of SenseTime, said the company and the Science Park were “highly complementary partners” that could build deep industrial-chain coverage to drive end-to-end innovation across the sector.
He said SenseTime could leverage Hong Kong’s strengths in finance and legal services to complement mainland Chinese industries, forming a “train on the mainland, process in Hong Kong, serve the world” model to bring AI products overseas and serve international clients.
Lillian Cheong Man-lei, under secretary for innovation, technology and industry, said the project was aimed at integrating industry and research.
“With the future completion of the Sandy Ridge Data Facility Cluster, the Science Park and the SenseTime domestic intelligent computing cluster, the acceleration of ‘Industries for AI’ and ‘AI for industries’ would be further advanced, cementing Hong Kong’s role as a data hub bridging the mainland and the international community,” she said.
Sandy Ridge Data Facility Cluster is part of the government’s Northern Metropolis megaproject, which will provide 180,000 petaflops of computing capacity upon completion in 2032.
She also revealed that the “Committee on AI+ and Industry Development Strategy”, which was mentioned by Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po in his latest budget speech, would hold its first meeting this month.
Meanwhile, another mainland company, National AI Monitoring, will set up its research and development and pilot production base for AI infrastructure monitoring systems at the Advanced Manufacturing Centre managed by the Science Park.
Jiang Meng, the managing director of National AI Monitoring (Hong Kong), said the company would develop and manufacture intelligent engineering robots and an “international version” of large-scale models for infrastructure safety.
He said the company would gradually transfer its production line to Hong Kong in the second half of this year and collaborate with local universities. Their products for international markets will be “made in Hong Kong” and “designed in Hong Kong”.


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Project to be built in three stages, targeting 40,000 petaflops of computing power by 2030 to drive sector’s industrialisation


Project to be built in three stages, targeting 40,000 petaflops of computing power by 2030 to drive sector’s industrialisation.


Hong Kong Science Park, SenseTime partner to build home-grown AI data centre

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Project to be built in three stages, targeting 40,000 petaflops of computing power by 2030 to drive sector’s industrialisation