China Mobile has launched a data center in Beijing, China.

Referred to by the company as a "computing center", it is kitted out 4,000 artificial intelligence (AI) accelerator cards, reports China Daily.

China Mobile claims 33 percent of the AI chips are domestically developed, and that it has a total AI computing performance of over 1,000 petaflops.

The facility reportedly spans around 57,000 sqm (613,542 sq ft) and is located at Information Port, Changping, Beijing.

The computing center is one of 12 that China Mobile has in regions such as Jing-Jin-Ji, CNI Yangtze Index, Greater Bay Area, Chengdu-Chongqing, Guizhou, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Heilongjiang, Hubei, Shandong, and the computing power scale has reached 17 exaflops as of May this year.

Since announcing the launch of the Beijing computing center, China Mobile has announced a $2.6 billion order from local suppliers for equipment in its "intelligent computing centers," reports C114 News.

Among the winners from the tender are Kunlun IT which supplies AI and Edge servers, Huakun Zhenyu, which builds hardware based on Huawei's Kunpeng and Ascend high-performance processors, and Powerleader.

In total, the company will purchase 8,054 devices for its intelligent computing center project, including 7,994 artificial intelligence servers and supporting products and 60 white box switches

China Mobile has also constructed what it claims is the largest telco-built intelligent data center in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, which has 20,000 AI accelerator cards and a capacity of 670 teraflops.

The company is also planning to develop intelligent computing centers in Harbin in the northeast of China, and Guiyang in the south.