Is AI the Secret Ingredient Powering China’s Green Energy Revolution?

China’s gone all-in on clean energy — wind, solar, and now a touch of artificial intelligence to keep it all running smoothly.

In one northern city called Chifeng, a factory is making hydrogen and ammonia using only renewable power. Sounds great… until the wind stops blowing. To fix that, they brought in an AI system that acts like a super-smart plant manager — speeding things up when it’s windy, slowing down when it’s cloudy, and never complaining about overtime.

This kind of setup is popping up all over China as part of the country’s new “AI + Energy” plan. The idea is simple: let AI handle the messy parts of powering a huge country — predicting when people will use more energy, balancing the grid, and keeping coal plants from working too hard.

Shanghai’s even testing a “virtual power plant” that links up EV chargers, office buildings, and data centers into one big teamwork-powered grid. In one trial, it saved as much power as a small coal plant would have produced — no smoke, no coal dust.

Of course, there’s a catch. AI itself eats a lot of electricity. China’s now pushing data centers to use more green power — or, in one clever twist, to move them underwater so the ocean can help keep things cool.

So yes, AI might make the energy system smarter — as long as it doesn’t end up needing its own power plant just to stay awake.

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