Tesla promises new China datacentre as Beijing lays down the law on local storage of EV data

Development comes amid greater public scrutiny of how EV data is stored in China. Musk has said Tesla would cease operations if its cars were used for spying in China or elsewhere. — SCMP

Tesla, the electric vehicle maker founded by Elon Musk, will build a datacentre in Shanghai by the end of June to handle data collected from its EVs amid greater public scrutiny of how personal information is handled and after Beijing pushed for local storage of data gathered by smart vehicles in the country.

The news was confirmed by Grace Tao, Tesla’s China head of communications and government affairs, who was quoted on Monday in the 21st Century Business Herald, a Chinese newspaper.