China sketches a $295B AI compute network

China is preparing a five-year AI infrastructure plan that could spend about $295 billion while requiring at least 80% domestic hardware and software.

The plan is less a procurement list than a structural push to reduce NVIDIA and AMD’s room in Chinese data centers.

The point is less a single feature than a test of distribution: the company is trying to place AI inside a workflow users already repeat every day.

The open question is execution. If the rollout is stable, it strengthens the commercial case; if it stumbles, the same visibility will amplify the failure.

Sources: public company materials and media reports, CocoLoop.