A mainland Chinese firm has won the tender to build a supercomputing hub in Hong Kong’s Northern Metropolis, agreeing to pay a land premium of HK$581 million (US$74.25 million) and invest HK$23.8 billion over the first three years to boost the city’s computing power 36-fold.
Secretary for Innovation, Technology and Industry Sun Dong revealed on Monday the winning bidder was Range Intelligent Computing Technology, whose ultimate holding company, Shenzhen-listed Runze Intelligent Computing…