Changzhou says it is building China’s first city-level clean-power token factory

The Chinese city of Changzhou is building what it claims will be the country’s first city-level “green token factory”, as local governments race to answer Beijing’s call to power massive artificial intelligence computing demands with clean energy.

The project would be powered by green energy and could produce 60 trillion tokens per year once completed, the municipal government said in a statement on Sunday during the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai.

The city in the eastern Jiangsu province did not provide a timeline for completion of the initiative.

The facility would connect directly to renewable energy plants under a national policy that allowed green power to bypass public grids, the statement said.

The design aims to optimise power usage, with token output expected to rise 62.5 per cent using the same computing power resources, significantly enhancing token supply efficiency and economic viability.