How China Will Dominate the Global Competition Over Data

Beijing launched its field of dreams for data—the Eastern Data Western Computing project—on February 17. It is still in the headlines in China, but it hardly made the news here. It just does not sound that important.
It is.
The Eastern Data Western Computing project has been the object of nearly continuous coverage in Chinese newspapers since February. By now, many (and perhaps most) Chinese Communist Party cadre and Chinese citizens could tell you it is the opening phase of China’s plan to construct a Nationally Integrated System (体系) of Big Data Centers.