China's 'potato capital' cultivates new crop of data centres as AI boom takes root
- ULANQAB, Inner Mongolia: For more than four decades, Zhang Zhiyong has made a living growing potatoes on the dry, windswept plains of northern China, as his family has long done.
- "It's all we've known," he told CNA, standing beside a pickup loaded with his latest harvest.
- But these days, the 64-year-old farmer has considerably less land to tend to - and more money in his pocket.
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- ULANQAB, Inner Mongolia: For more than four decades, Zhang Zhiyong has made a living growing potatoes on the dry, windswept plains of northern China, as his family has long done.
- "It's all we've known," he told CNA, standing beside a pickup loaded with his latest harvest.
- But these days, the 64-year-old farmer has considerably less land to tend to - and more money in his pocket.
Sources: CNA