Andrew Stokols
Andrew Stokols is a postdoctoral research fellow and lecturer at MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning. Andrew finished his PhD in Political Economy and Urban Planning at MIT in 2024. Andrew’s research has been published in Journal of Urban Affairs, Urban Geography, Cambridge Journal of Regions Economies Societies, University of Pennsylvania Press, Environment and Planning A, and the Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia. He is working on a book project on China’s digital infrastructure, and his dissertation and second book project Building Digital Cities and Nations asks how the smart city became a project of national development, with cases on Singapore, Thailand, and China.
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Energy and AI Coordination in the ‘Eastern Data Western Computing’ Plan
Executive Summary: The “Eastern Data Western Computing” plan is a multiagency strategy that coordinates cloud computing data centers and energy infrastructure across the People’s Republic of China. These are increasingly relevant