Chapter 372 The situation is stable
The 300 kilometers of land reclamation is almost equivalent to rebuilding one-half of the Lion City.
In the past, the Lion City has often mentioned the development of artificial intelligence and chip industries, but what limits them is natural resources.
Fresh water, land, and electricity all form the most direct constraints. They cause TSMC to choose Neon instead of the Lion City in the process of moving its high-end production capacity overseas.
Before TSMC built a wafer fab in Kumamoto Prefecture, in addition to Neon, it also considered Deutschland and the Lion City. In the end, it did not choose Deutschland because of expensive labor and high environmental uncertainty. It did not choose the Lion City because of Natural resource endowments are too poor.
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In the past, TSMC's factories in 4V often faced risks from typhoons, earthquakes and power outages. TSMC alone consumed half of the island's electricity supply.
For the Lion City without nuclear energy, it is still too difficult to develop chips.
In the past, it was said that to develop the artificial intelligence industry, the amount of electricity required by the artificial intelligence industry was even more exaggerated than semiconductors.
You can see in the news that Google, Microsoft, Alibaba, etc., these giants with deep accumulation in the field of artificial intelligence, are building new data centers in Southeast Asia, but their first choice will only be Malaysia, not the Lion City. .
Even though the Lion City has advantages in talent and capital.
In the two years from 2023 to 2024 alone, Amazon will invest US$6 billion, Nvidia will invest US$4.3 billion in cooperation with YTL Group, Google will invest US$2 billion, Microsoft will invest US$2.2 billion, and ByteDance will invest US$2.13 billion. Oracle to invest US$6.3 billion.
All these investments were made in Malaysia. In the past, the Lion City did not even think about competing with Malaysia for these investments because they did not have the carrying capacity.
Investment exceeded US$20 billion in two years.
For the Lion City, no matter how much they advocate that they want to develop the artificial intelligence industry, the reality is before their eyes. Your basic conditions do not support your development.
But with the addition of 300 square kilometers of land and the introduction of nuclear power, the situation is different.
In the past, the Lion City had no nuclear power generation and was highly dependent on external power. Natural gas power generation relied on Malaysia and Indonesia.
The current New Lion City plan is not only as simple as reclamation and land reclamation, but the use after it is put into production is also clearly told to everyone here. Alpha Technology not only provides technology, Alpha Technology also packages the use of the newly added land after reclamation and land reclamation.
It is equivalent to a complete package and full responsibility for it to the end.
The Lion City people among the journalists present felt relieved.
With Alpha taking care of things, the future of the Lion City is at least guaranteed.
As the only Internet giant born outside America and China after the advent of the Internet era, Alpha Technology does have such huge needs at the data center level.
Journalists will not forget that three years ago, Alpha Technology sold 10 Haohan-I quantum computers to Goldman Sachs in a package for a sky-high price of US$5 billion. They did not ask for cash, but all they wanted was the latest model of Nvidia's AI computing card.
While Hornbill occupies Southeast Asia and some Asian, African and Latin American countries, Alpha Technology's artificial intelligence industrialization upgrade in Malaysia has equally strong demand for computing power.
Therefore, no one doubts whether Alpha Technology can do it.
“Reshaping the Lion City’s global positioning and global image is a very arduous task that requires not only knowledge, experience, practical experience and organizational capabilities, but also sufficient creativity.
In this era of extremely fierce competition, in this era when mankind has begun to move into space, all our goals and aspirations will be just empty slogans through hard work alone, and we will not be able to provide an adequate quality of life for the people of the Lion City. It is impossible to complete the construction of the new Lion City.
In the future, Lion City will reach an in-depth cooperative relationship with Alpha Technology and use Alpha Technology's outstanding technology in the field of artificial intelligence to transform all functional departments of the government.
The future Lion City will be a more fair, just and efficient Lion City. ”
Oraz, who was sitting next to Wang Yikang, was no different from a puppet.
He felt that his boss had unknowingly secured such a huge territory for Alpha Technology, and then he didn't have to do anything but just deliver the victory speech.
It's a bit like skipping the battle screen directly and coming to the victory settlement screen.
“In the past, we have always emphasized that public services must stay away from politics, and public servants cannot get involved in political debates or partypolitics, but PAP has obviously not done so on this point.
In the future, we will further disclose party information from a technical level, and the decisions and decision-making logic made by relevant departments will be further disclosed to the people of Lion City.
In short, the external strategic environment we are in, the challenges we face and the current turbulent situation, as well as the overall goals we are working hard to achieve, there will be specific paths to complete the practice step by step in the future.”
After listening to this, Wang Renkang had only one thought, that is, the televised speeches of the previous two days were much weaker than the speeches at today's press conference.
He feels that today's press conference is the official power transfer speech.
It's just that the alpha rate of this speech is a bit too high.
The congressmen at the scene roughly understood who was behind this round of changes.
Everyone knows Alpha Technology very well. As a Southeast Asian technology giant, it can compete with leading companies in terms of technology. In the past, all traditional encryption methods were cracked through quantum cloud.
In the past three years, major financial institutions have iterated on various backend encryption algorithms. The leading companies had to pay protection fees to China to apply for the use of quantum computers to encrypt core business systems.
The initiator of all this is Alpha Technology.
Therefore, the information gap was caused by Alpha, and the MPs thought it was too normal.
They seriously doubted that Samad, the founder of Alpha, after cracking the RSA algorithm, the first thing he did was to use his quantum computer to break all the key systems in the Lion City.
It took several years of accumulation to complete such a thunderous blow.
The shareholders behind Alpha include Goldman Sachs, Guangjia, and Tencent, which also means that it has the tacit approval of Amerikan and China.
The group of congressmen who were instigated to rebel came up with a rough path.
After the press conference, the congressmen all respected Oraz. Only Oraz was confused. He smelled fear in the expressions and actions of these people, "Am I so scary?"
During the question-and-answer session after Wang Yikang finished speaking, the members of the Saudi and Qatari royal families wearing headscarves and big beards could not sit still.
The members of the royal family who can be sent to attend the press conference in Lion City, if you say they are marginalized, you cannot talk about them. If you talk about core figures, you cannot talk about them. They are more like descendants who have not yet taken power.
Generally younger.
It’s precisely because I’m young that I can’t hold myself back easily.
If it were an older generation, they would definitely have to come back to the Lion City to blend in after the press conference. "Mr. Oraz, I would like to ask how much does Alpha Technology's sand cost?"
The cost of desert sand is next to nothing, just shipping costs to consider.
"Using our technology to convert sand, the conversion rate is about 1.5 to 1, which means that 1.5 tons of desert sand can be converted into 1 ton of river sand. The cost of the chemical compound used for 1.5 tons of river sand is US$10. ”
Desert sand costs almost nothing, the only cost is shipping.
The shipping cost from Qatar to the Lion City is about US$850 per large container.
The theoretical loading capacity of a large container is 60 cubic meters, but in practice it can only be loaded with 55 to 57 cubic meters.
1 cubic meter of sand is about 1.35 tons to 1.45 tons, which means that if you want to transport sand from Qatar to the Lion City, the cost of 1 ton is about 11.5 US dollars.
1.5 tons is converted into 1 ton of river sand, plus the cost of the compound of 10 US dollars, then the cost of 1 ton of river sand is about 27 US dollars.
The cost of 1 cubic meter of river sand is about US$37.8. Taking into account the depreciation of the US dollar, this price is almost the same as the price of river sand in China.
The people around the prince came up with the price almost immediately and told the prince in his ear.
The face of the prince of Qatar suddenly changed. This cost price is enough for them to double the size of Doha casually.
China banned the export of river sand as early as 2007, and very few countries are still willing to export river sand. This cost price already means that a market of at least tens of billions of tons is opening the door to Alpha.
As mentioned earlier, the global annual river sand consumption ranges from 32 billion tons to 50 billion tons, while the global annual natural recovery of river sand is only 12 billion tons. For developed countries, even for environmental protection purposes, it is more cost-effective to import processed sand from the Lion City than to dig it yourself.
As early as 2023, the price of imported river sand in Qatar was already US$108 per ton.
If you want to import from India, the price is even more disgusting. The price per ton fluctuates between 140 and 700 US dollars. Yes, they can sell it to you for up to 700 US dollars.
"Everyone, the subsequent detailed report on synthetic sand, including the quality of synthetic sand itself and the strength of reinforced concrete after using synthetic sand as one of the raw materials, will be reflected in the report.
In the future, we will build a synthetic sand factory in the Lion City and officially export synthetic sand to the world. ” Oraz knows this is big business.
Big business in the true sense of the word.
At a scale of 10 billion tons, even if a profit of 1 US dollar is collected per ton, the net profit is 10 billion US dollars every year.
More importantly, there is no doubt whether the world can absorb so much production capacity.
This is simply a walking money printing machine.
After the press conference, both the Qatari royal family and the Saudi royal family were waiting for Oraz.
This matter is too important to them, and they need to interview Oraz.
If you only look at official statistics, you would be surprised that Qatar only imports a few million dollars of river sand a year.
However, in fact, there will be a huge difference between the statistical data and the real data.
The difference is staggering.
Taking the Lion City as an example, Myanmar and Cambodia, which are near the Lion City, reported to the United Nations that they exported a small amount of river sand to the Lion City.
However, the actual amount of river sand imported by Lion City from these places is 40 times less than what these places claim. That is to say, if Cambodia and Myanmar claim to export 10 tons, they actually export 400 tons.
Such exaggerated data differences also appear in the data on the Lion City's import and export of river sand from Malaysia. In 2021, Malaysia reported that it shipped sand worth a total of US$32.9 million to the Lion City throughout the year. However, the actual import volume was more than ten times that amount, exceeding US$350 million.
Why do these countries lie about their export data? Because these data are reported to the United Nations Environment Program's Global Resource Information Database. They are worried that if too much data is reported, the United Nations will restrict their river sand export business on the grounds of environmental protection. .
Selling natural resources is almost the easiest business for poor countries, and they obviously don't want to lose this business.
The press conference quickly stabilized the people of the Lion City, and the media was hyping up the significance of this incident to the Lion City.
"Do you really believe that the sand and gravel industry can save the Lion City?" Wang Renkang witnessed the change in mentality of his local colleagues in the Lion City. Everyone is now generally optimistic and believes that the sand and gravel industry can lead the Lion City to a more prosperous future. .
"Of course, why not? Everyone is not stupid. What was said at the press conference was not that technology research and development was completed, that there was progress, or that there were papers, but that it will be put into production now.
The Lion City needs to spend real money on land reclamation. For a reclamation area of 300 square kilometers, an average of 70 million tons of sand and gravel will be used to reclaim 1 square kilometer. If synthetic sand is not feasible, the Lion City will not This technical route may be adopted.
Is it possible that they can produce 21 billion tons of sand and gravel? With such a large amount, even if China has no restrictions on its exports to us, it will not be able to export so much river sand within five years.
With the endorsement of Lion City and Alpha Technology, with an additional 300 square kilometers, the area of Lion City will be almost the same as that of Xiangjiang. Taking into account the land utilization rate, Lion City has more usable land than Xiangjiang. "His colleagues talked a lot about it.
"But the financial industry cannot recover, and land alone cannot be converted into corresponding value." Wang Renkang asked.
His colleague analyzed: "Think about it, why are the costs calculated at the press conference, and why are the detailed land reclamation areas announced?
The purpose is to settle accounts for the people.
It just so happens that I am responsible for writing a special report on the new Lion City. Let me tell you about the intentions of the new leaders at this press conference.
The land reclamation area is 300 square kilometers in five years. The hidden message is that the production capacity of synthetic sand is 21 billion tons in five years, which is 4.2 billion tons per year. Calling Qatar to drink Saudi Arabia is telling everyone that this is the bottom line, and there is even room for export. .
The cost price per ton is US$37.8. Even if traded at cost price, the annual GDP created is 158.76 billion yuan. This GDP is already higher than the GDP of the Lion City's financial industry.
What's more, the pillar of the Lion City's GDP is the service industry brought by the Strait of Malacca. In the future, natural sand from all over the world will be transported to the Lion City, which will be processed into synthetic sand and then exported to the world.
The Lion City can provide a single subject matter with high standardization, constant price and strong demand. Can you think of any better business than this?
This means that the Lion City has added a Strait of Malacca out of thin air.
Moreover, Alpha Technology has said that it will invest in building a data center in the Lion City and develop the artificial intelligence industry in the Lion City.
This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the Lion City.
Confidence in the financial sector can be restored, but this may only happen once. ”
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