China's Data Centers: The Overlooked Backbone of Uyghur Surveillance
By
Nick Shereikis
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Summary
This article examines how data centers serve as the physical and digital backbone of China's mass surveillance system in the Xinjiang Uyghur region. While international attention has focused on forced labor, atrocity crimes, and overt surveillance of ethnic minorities, the data centers that store and process biometric data, communications records, and behavioral patterns remain the least scrutinized component of this digital architecture. The article notes that despite the scale of these abuses, the digital infrastructure enabling them continues to require compatibility with American technology.
Key quotes
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These facilities provide the physical infrastructure that stores, processes, and acts on the biometric data, communications records, and behavioral patterns used to monitor citizens, especially ethnic minorities.
Despite significant international attention to forced labor, atrocity crimes, and surveillance in the Uyghur region, the digital backbone enabling those abuses has received comparatively little scrutiny.
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