Inclusive AI Goes Global: DataCanvas Selected for APEC's Case Collection of Digital and AI Empowerment in Asia-Pacific Region

On July 24, the APEC "High-Level Dialogue: Leveraging Digital and AI Technologies to Empower the APEC Community" was held in Chengdu, Sichuan. As one of the flagship events of the 2026 APEC Digital Week, the dialogue brought together roughly 400 representatives from government, academia, and industry across APEC economies. LI Lecheng, Minister of Industry and Information Technology, noted at the conference that member economies should strengthen exchanges in policy, technology, and talent, and harness the convergence of digital and intelligent innovation to jointly forge new advantages for the development of the Asia-Pacific.

The Case Collection of Digital and AI Empowerment in Asia-Pacific Region was officially launched at the event. Among the entries, the DataCanvas-powered NeutraDC computing center project in Indonesia stood out for its exceptional demonstrative value and was selected as a benchmark case in the infrastructure category. This recognition not only affirms DataCanvas's technical prowess with authoritative endorsement but, more importantly, signals that its intelligent computing solutions offer a replicable and scalable practice model for bridging the "intelligence divide" across the Asia-Pacific region.

From "Luxury" to "Utility": Making Intelligent Computing Power Truly Accessible

The case collection focuses on areas such as large language models, green computing, and cross-border digital trade, with the aim of contributing replicable digital-intelligent practices for APEC economies. At a time when the global intelligent computing economy is developing at an accelerating pace, high-performance AI computing power has long been regarded as an exclusive "luxury" reserved for a handful of tech giants. The core value of the Indonesian project that earned DataCanvas its place in the collection lies in how it combines "technology standardization" with "ecosystem localization" — transforming intelligent computing from something out of reach into a broadly shared public resource.

In concrete terms, DataCanvas partnered with a leading local telecom enterprise in Indonesia to co-build a localized intelligent computing cloud service in Jakarta. Leveraging its self-developed Alaya NeW Cloud intelligent computing platform, DataCanvas delivers a one-stop AI development toolchain and a high-efficiency inference engine to the Indonesian market, effectively lowering the technical barrier for local developers and enabling them to get AI applications up and running quickly. This collaboration has become a flagship example of how DataCanvas fosters the integration of intelligent computing ecosystems on a global scale.

What makes this case uniquely valuable is that it charts a path for the deep convergence of "technology standardization" and "ecosystem localization." Rather than simply exporting products, DataCanvas takes a mature technology and operations framework built in China and replicates that capability paradigm worldwide. The company is now accelerating its exploration of intelligent computing center deployments across multiple regions — Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Europe — gradually unfurling an intelligent computing footprint that spans Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.

From "Going Global" to "Going Local": China's Contribution to the Asia-Pacific

At the case launch event, DataCanvas articulated its core philosophy, which can be distilled into a simple idea: "turning computing power into water and electricity." What the company provides goes beyond computing infrastructure — it is a systematic solution: a resilient computing foundation, local capacity cultivation, and an out-of-the-box service model that helps regions leapfrog traditional infrastructure cycles and step directly into the AI era.

DataCanvas is evolving from a technology exporter into a comprehensive partner in sustainable capacity building. Whether co-building a sovereign AI cloud in Indonesia or deploying intelligent computing centers in the Middle East and Southeast Asia, the objective remains consistent — to build locally autonomous, cost-reasonable computing ecosystems and become a long-term partner in each nation's digital future.

As the APEC Chengdu Declaration is officially released, member economies have reached broad consensus on strengthening digital and AI technology-enabled development. DataCanvas's successful practice in Indonesia stands as the most vivid footnote to that very consensus. The company continues to advance Chinese computing solutions across the Asia-Pacific, striving to contribute Chinese ingenuity to building an open, inclusive, and universally accessible digital future for the region.