Ulanqab: Where AI's Cost War Becomes an Electricity Price War
Everyone assumes the DeepSeek story is about releasing a stronger model. In September 2026, the story quietly changed shape. In early September, reports emerged that DeepSeek plans to build a data center of roughly 1GW in Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia, deploying at least 160,000 of Huawei's next-generation Ascend 950DT accelerators. At the price leaked on September 10 — over 250,000 yuan per ac …



