https://en.people.cn/n3/2026/0601/c90000-20462419.html

Under this title, an author by the name of Cheng Yu points out the following strategy:

China wants to turn domestic electricity, data centers and large-language-model capability into a high-value export product.

Under this model, the power stays inside China. The servers stay inside China. The models run inside Chinese intelligent computing centers. What crosses borders is the AI service itself — inference results delivered through an API.

That makes “token exports” a new form of services trade. Traditional computing-power globalization often meant heavy investment abroad: building data centers, laying fiber, securing local energy supply and operating networks in foreign markets. Token exports promise something different: electricity does not leave the grid, computing power does not leave the country, but value flows globally.