Tilling the Data Farms of Guizhou | Sixth Tone
Chen Jin—Sixth Tone
The once impoverished province of Guizhou recently became wealthy in data farms and vocational schools. China’s “big three” telecom companies, as well as Apple and Foxconn, lured by cheap labor and abundant hydropower all have data centers. Workers, some of them students, identify objects in still images taken from street camera footage, providing the tech companies troves of test data for their artificial intelligence and machine learning systems.
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The once impoverished province of Guizhou recently became wealthy in data farms and vocational schools. China’s “big three” telecom companies, as well as Apple and Foxconn, lured by cheap labor and abundant hydropower all have data centers. Workers, some of them students, identify objects in still images taken from street camera footage, providing the tech companies troves of test data for their artificial intelligence and machine learning systems.