“To realise this vision, we are upgrading the AI Superhighway across Hong Kong’s major data centre clusters.”
China, the US and Hong Kong
China and the US are the two main players in the world’s AI race. The Boston Consulting Group described the US strategy as ‘winning through scale’, accelerating capital deployment and building out massive amounts of data centre infrastructure to support demand from AI.
Hong Kong is a special administrative region of China, it is a self-governed authority under the “one country, two systems” framework, implemented in 1997 – when Hong Kong gained independence from the United Kingdom, which transferred authority to the People’s Republic of China.
While China and the US battle it out on frontier AI models, Hong Kong is ramping up its own data centre deployments, some supported by Chinese tech firms. The British Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong wrote, in an article they posted on LinkedIn in June 2026, that Hong Kong currently operates approximately 581 megawatts of live data centre capacity, with more than 400 MW under construction or in planning across the city.
Last year, US regulators moved to block HKT from US telecommunications networks – citing its affiliation with a Chinese Communist Party controlled entity.