China’s telecoms giants bet on ‘air-space-ground-sea’ networks for future AI needs

China’s telecoms giants are pushing for “air-space-ground-sea” networks amid Beijing’s push to expand Artificial Intelligence infrastructure, as SpaceX’s market debut has ignited the industry’s focus beyond the Earth.At the opening of the Mobile World Congress (MWC) Shanghai on Wednesday, telecommunications executives framed the next phase of infrastructure as one that needs to encompass both the skies and oceans to meet skyrocketing demand for AI computing.Wang Tao, rotating chairman of Huawei Technologies, said that as AI gains agentic capabilities, the geographic coverage of the internet should be extended from the current 20 per cent on the ground to 100 per cent “across high altitudes, oceans and deserts”.