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China is deploying 5G at a scale greater
than any other place in the world.
China's exceptionally good at developing
infrastructure uh whether it's you know
5G infrastructure or electric grid
infrastructure or electric vehicle
charging infrastructure that has this
ability to do good planning and then
also to execute. What I've seen in China
is 5G completely changing the way people
live and work. Even in seemingly low
tech traditional
industries across the country, more than
2 and a2 million people are employed in
coal mining. It's dangerous work known
for frequent accidents and fatalities.
This is the main shaft of the mine. It's
a dark place with thick air. It's also
the most dangerous place in the mine.
One of the problems is the inability to
control machinery
remotely. It's impractical to connect
using wires, meaning workers have needed
to be perilously close to their machines
at all
times. 5G is capable of bringing digital
connections into deep underground
crevices such as this one, allowing the
facility to become completely
automated. Previous 4G systems beamed
data inefficiently in all directions.
5G is much more precise. We can make
beams
simultaneously that can be a little
sliver going this way or we can have a
little sliver that way or we can have
multiple ones that way or multiple ones
this way and it can extend the distance
or it can provide more capacity or it
can follow somebody or something.
China says its goal is to ultimately
move away from coal and into cleaner
forms of
energy. 5G is a critical part of this
plan as
well. This is the Ding Dang floating
solar farm. Across a large swath of sea
are endless solar panels, each requiring
monitoring. The plant's expected total
output is 550 million kwatt hours per
year. That's enough to power 52,000
typical American homes. You have tens of
thousands of photovoltaic cells and 5G
can monitor information from them more
efficiently than anything else can.
China's national 5G infrastructure gives
a built-in advantage to this large-scale
solar farm.
Solar panel technology is prone to
malfunctions and one problematic panel
can shut down an entire
grid. 5G enables each panel to
constantly send data to a central
command station, making inspections more
efficient and saving labor
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costs. And a solar farm can scale to a
size that wouldn't be possible
otherwise.
I can now monitor them to see whether
they're failing or when they're going to
fail. So, I can optimize that prediction
of maintenance for these farms. And
there's another unexpected benefit here.
The shade from the solar farm actually
cools the surrounding water, helping
create an ideal environment for farming
shrimp and other seafood. But all this
is possible because the Chinese
government sees the advantage of
creating a web of connectivity across
the entire country and is willing to use
its central authority to make it a
reality.
5G cellular technology is really sort of
a major leap and it really is more of
the high-tech future that we've seen in
the movies and in sci-fi um in which
we're surrounded all the time uh by you
know really high-speed data and the
ability to exploit all of that and that
just basically means 5G will enable um
much more precisionbased applications
driverless cars automated ports and
factories
next generation AI. What all of these
things have in common is that they can't
fully develop until 5G infrastructure is
built. And as with most new
infrastructure, we don't yet know how it
will change society for better or worse.