China is pulling ahead of the rest of the world in sinking data centers that power AI into the ocean as an alternate way to keep them cool

National and state political leaders are rushing to regulate and incentivize the rapidly growing data center industry.

(Reuters) -CoreWeave plans to spend up to $6 billion on building a new artificial intelligence data center in Pennsylvania, as part of a push by U.S. President Donald Trump to maintain the country’s edge in the booming technology sector, the company said on Tuesday.

Data center operators in China, which use Nvidia’s H20 chips to crunch data for various AI services, have been struggling to find a local alternative that is as good as the U.S. company’s chips.

During the summit held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on July 15, companies promised new data centers, new jobs, cybersecurity education, energy research, and more.