{"id":207958,"date":"2024-02-25T01:12:16","date_gmt":"2024-02-25T01:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/25\/business-facilities-2019-global-rankings-report\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:21:37","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:21:37","slug":"business-facilities-2019-global-rankings-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/25\/business-facilities-2019-global-rankings-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Facilities\u2019 2019 Global Rankings Report"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Business Facilities Staff<\/strong>
From the July\/August 2019 Issue\"\"

Y<\/span>ou\u2019ve probably heard a lot of hand-wringing lately\u2014particularly from U.S. national security types\u2014that China\u2019s stated intention of becoming the world leader in artificial intelligence poses an existential threat to the United States in particular and to our democratic way of life in general.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the good news: we\u2019ve looked at all of the relevant surveys, government reports and research summaries (including a data-rich AI development report from Tsinghua University), and we\u2019ve concluded that the United States is the top-ranked nation in the emerging artificial intelligence sector.\"2019

China is a close second in the AI sweepstakes, followed by the United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, Israel, India, France, Japan and South Korea.<\/p>\n

Since 2017, China has made an aggressive push to walk the walk as well as talk the talk about becoming an AI superpower, with the PRC\u2019s government plan investing billions of dollars in the sector (and making Beijing the world\u2019s leading AI hub in the process). However, the United States still has some significant advantages, including more investment sources, a larger high-tech workforce, the leading research papers and more advanced chipsets.<\/p>\n

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In July 2017, the Chinese government under President Xi Jinping released a development plan calling for the PRC to become the world leader in AI by 2030, including investing billions of dollars in AI startups and research parks.<\/p>\n

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The big wild card in the development of artificial intelligence revolves around potential military applications.<\/p>\n

Military analysts don\u2019t believe the major powers are close to unveiling a \u201ckiller robot\u201d prototype that could be deployed like a soldier on a battlefield, but the sophistication of drones in the air (and below the water) soon may give these unmanned vehicles the power to make life-or-death decisions without human intervention.<\/p>\n

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One thing is certain: a \u201cSputnik\u201d moment involving an AI-driven weapons system will no doubt lead to a Manhattan-project type response that could dramatically speed up the timeline for all AI weapons development, giving scientists more nightmares to contemplate as they adjust the global Doomsday clock.<\/p>\n

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CHINA RULES IN RENEWABLES<\/h4>\n

China continues to dominate its global competition in just about every renewable energy category, including the amount it is investing in renewables.<\/p>\n

China leads the field in overall Installed Capacity for Renewables, as well as Installed Solar Power Capacity and Installed Wind Power Capacity. The United States places second in each of these categories, with Germany, Japan and India rounding out the top five in overall Installed Capacity.<\/p>\n

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Since it\u2019s surrounded on three sides by water, you\u2019d think the U.S. has the edge in the emerging market for offshore wind energy, but China is poised to dominate offshore wind in the coming years.<\/p>\n

China is expected to install around 40 gigawatts of offshore wind capacity over the next 10 years, only 11 gigawatts less than the coastal nations of Europe combined. The potential size of China\u2019s surging offshore wind market means that Chinese original equipment manufacturers could lead the global offshore wind order manufacturing rankings as well as installed offshore capacity.<\/p>\n

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However, Chinese OEMs that produce wind turbines likely will be limited to domestic production for the huge market in the PRC, primarily because the size of wind turbines increasingly requires that they be made in the countries that deploy them. Also, the current trade war between the U.S. and China has seen the U.S. levy new restrictions on Chinese investments in the U.S., a development which could impede any effort by China\u2019s wind turbine OEMs to establish satellite manufacturing hubs in the U.S.<\/p>\n

Chinese manufacturers also are struggling to match the turbine sizes now offered by European OEMs, including the 9.5-megawatt turbines that MHI Vestas is building for Vineyard Wind, an 800-megawatt project that will be installed off the southern coast of Massachusetts, and 8-megawatt turbines produced by Siemens Gamesa. The largest turbine produced in China yields 6.7 megawatts.<\/p>\n

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In the bottom half of our logistics standings, Taipei overtook Tokyo for eighth place, while Los Angeles joined the top 10 in tenth place.<\/p>\n

Click here<\/a> to read Business Facilities\u2019 15th Annual Rankings Report: State Rankings
<\/i>Click here<\/a> to read Business Facilities\u2019 15th Annual Rankings Report: Metro Rankings<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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