DeepSeek has posted open vacancies for specialists in civil engineering, electrical work, heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC), automation, energy, communications, and ecology. These positions are intended to bolster the company's IDC data center team in cities such as Hangzhou, Beijing, and Ulan Bator in Inner Mongolia.
The job descriptions involve participation in what is described as the most important construction of the artificial intelligence era, encompassing both traditional air-cooled data centers and gigawatt-scale liquid-cooled AI campuses. For a company that previously relied on third-party computing power, this move signals that infrastructure depth is becoming part of the AI product stack.
ByteDance is moving in a similar direction. On July 21, ByteDance's subsidiary in Beijing registered two new companies in Zhongwei, Ningxia, with charter capital of 220 million and 240 million yuan, respectively, and expanded its business scope to include the leasing of non-residential real estate. Zhongwei is considered a key city for computing in the country, boasting an average annual temperature of 7.8 degrees Celsius, low land and electricity costs, and direct fiber optic connectivity to Beijing.
This trend aligns with the fragmentation of AI computing architectures: latency-tolerant training is moving inland to areas with low energy and land costs, while latency-sensitive inference remains close to demand centers.
The expansion into Ulan Bator serves as the clearest example. Between 2013 and early 2026, 84 data center projects were signed in the city, 81 of which are intelligent computing centers, with cumulative investments exceeding 500 billion yuan. The city's operational computing power reached 125,000 petaflops in 2025 and is targeted to exceed 200,000 petaflops in 2026, sufficient for parallel training of dozens of 100-billion parameter models.
In Yancheng, Jiangsu province, a similar development model based on offshore wind power is observed, as SenseTime began construction of a 3,000 petaflop smart computing complex in November 2025. In Ichang, Yangzhou, projects by Tencent, China Telecom, China Mobile, and China Unicom have been implemented with total investments exceeding 60 billion yuan.
This shift is also transforming the commercial real estate market. JLL and CBRE now classify data centers as a fast-growing asset class, and both firms anticipate that AI demand, rather than cloud service rental space, will be the dominant factor. The bottleneck for new constructions is not so much construction capacity but access to power, high-density cooling, and grid integration. Some traditional developers have begun viewing data center construction management as a new line of business amidst declining margins in the residential sector.
Thus, the macroeconomic signal extends beyond simple recruitment. AI computing power is becoming a critical infrastructure category, competing with railways, power grids, and the internet for long-term capital allocation. Chinese tech companies are increasingly being evaluated not only on model performance but also on their ability to provide, power, cool, and operate multi-gigawatt facilities. DeepSeek's civil engineering vacancy reflects a much larger industrial reorganization, where computational infrastructure, not just algorithms, is becoming a defensive barrier.
British and Portuguese researchers have completed a cross-sectional study that established a link between the composition of the microflora inhabiting the gut and oral cavity and the degree of manifestation of subclinical psychopathic personality traits.
The results of this scientific work were officially published in the journal Translational Psychiatry.
The United Arab Emirates Astronomy Center issued a clarification regarding four astronomical events scheduled for August 12, 2026, in response to media reports that the Center claimed exaggerated or distorted the facts.
According to the Center's data, the mentioned events include a total solar eclipse, the Perseid meteor shower, planetary alignment, and a new moon. Although all these events will indeed occur on this day, the Astronomy Center noted that the degree of their visibility and significance were artificially inflated in media publications.
Reports about the total solar eclipse on August 12 are accurate. The Center indicated that this phenomenon will be visible in Siberia, at the North Pole, Greenland, Iceland, parts of the northeastern Atlantic, Spain, and the western Mediterranean Sea. Meanwhile, residents of North America, Western and Central Europe, Russia, and West Africa, including Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and northwestern Libya, will only see a partial eclipse.
During the eclipse, the chromosphere and corona of the Sun can be observed from certain territories. The shape of the corona changes from one eclipse to another, which is determined by the intensity of the Sun's magnetic field.
The Perseid meteor shower, named after the constellation Perseus, is observed annually from July 17 to August 24, with the number of meteors increasing between August 11 and 14. The Astronomy Center reported that conditions are particularly favorable for observing meteors in the Arab region this year because the absence of moonlight during the peak of the shower will be due to the new moon. Meteors will be visible on the night leading into Thursday morning. Nevertheless, the Center clarified that only a small number of meteors can be seen from urban areas due to light pollution.
The Astronomy Center refuted claims that a special planetary alignment would be visible on August 12, calling such reports 'exaggerations bordering on disinformation.' The Center explained that planets are always aligned along an imaginary line in the sky called the ecliptic, and during Wednesday, from the moment after sunset until the moment before the next morning's sunrise, Venus, Saturn, Mars, Mercury, and Jupiter will be visible above the horizon. However, proximity to the Sun will make the last two planets almost invisible, and the others will be difficult to spot for the untrained eye, with the exception of Venus, which can be noticed as a bright object on Wednesday evening.
The fourth event is a regular new moon, which holds no particular significance. According to the Astronomy Center, social media posts attributed special characteristics to the new moon, which is false.
The Minister of Agriculture of Uzbekistan, Ibrohim Abdurakhmonov, held a meeting with Yahya Tabesh, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley). Discussions covered the implementation of artificial intelligence in the agricultural sector, industry digitalization, and the development of innovative education.
Yahya Tabesh, who is a senior researcher at the AMENA Center for Entrepreneurship and Development at UC Berkeley and an AI researcher, presented his expertise. During the meeting, the parties examined the potential use of AI technologies in agriculture, the development of decision support systems, and the application of data-driven intelligent technologies for farm management.
Special attention was paid to strengthening cooperation with UC Berkeley in science and education. Proposals were put forward, including inviting university faculty and experts to Uzbekistan, conducting practical training for students and local specialists, and launching joint educational and research programs.
A preliminary conceptual framework for creating an AI Innovation Park was presented during the meeting. According to this initiative, AI technologies are planned to be applied in agritech, industry, energy, logistics, and other priority sectors. It was also proposed to create an educational and practical environment for implementing innovative projects.
Participants discussed specialist training in the context of artificial intelligence development. Tabesh emphasized the importance of combining technical knowledge with the development of creativity, ethical thinking, humanism, and imagination. The parties concluded that the key approach is to use artificial intelligence to enhance human capabilities, not to replace them.
Furthermore, the issue of introducing modern methods into agricultural education, such as project-based learning, solving practical problems, and developing creative thinking, was discussed.
