Clay Chandler

Hong Kong

Executive Editor, Asia at Fortune

Hong Kong-based Executive Editor, Asia for FORTUNE. Formerly McKinsey & Co; Asia Editor, Fortune; chief economic correspondent, Washington Post.

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IDEO, home of 'design thinking', picks former partner Mike Peng to help clients embrace AI without losing their humanity

2 weeks ago | fortune.com | Clay Chandler

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Malaysia aspires to provide the backbone of the global AI boom. Will the bet pay off?

3 weeks ago | fortune.com | Clay Chandler
How DeepSeek, deep pockets, and data centers are giving Asia an AI edge

3 weeks ago | fortune.com | Clay Chandler
The nine lives of Masayoshi Son

1 month ago | fortune.com | Clay Chandler

Son’s career has showcased his flair for big bets and grand gestures. Haruyoshi Yamaguchi—Bloomberg/Getty Images
Dodgers owner Todd Boehly thinks the Shohei Ohtani-led team is the ‘obvious choice’ to take baseball global—if only MLB would let him profit from it

1 month ago | fortune.com | Clay Chandler

Shohei Ohtani #17 of the Los Angeles Dodgers flies out in the top of the third inning against Hanshin Tigers at Tokyo Dome on March 16, 2025 in Tokyo, Japan. Kenta Harada—Getty Images
The company that’s building on the moon

Nov 18, 2024 | finance.yahoo.com | Clay Chandler

Clay Chandler here, filling in for Diane. I’ve just landed back in Hong Kong following an event-filled week in New York City that kicked off with the fantastic 2024 Fortune Global Forum, where I joined conversations with a host of insightful speakers, including former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, International Monetary Fund first deputy managing director Gita Gopinath, and a panel of distinguished global China experts.
The company that's building on the moon

Nov 18, 2024 | fortune.com | Clay Chandler

I’ve just landed back in Hong Kong following an event-filled week in New York City that kicked off with the fantastic 2024 Fortune Global Forum, where I joined conversations with a host of insightful speakers, including former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, International Monetary Fund first deputy managing director Gita Gopinath, and a panel of distinguished global China experts.
Women in Asia are slowly starting to break through historic barriers to the top of the corporate world

Oct 7, 2024 | fortune.com | Clay Chandler

But if Tottori’s ascent is a breakthrough for Japanese women, in another sense, its novelty highlights the extraordinary durability of Japan’s glass ceiling. Of the 1,836 companies listed on the top-tier “prime” section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, only 15 were led by women, or less than 1%, according to a January 2023 report by credit research firm Teikoku Databank.
In China, Tesla is a ‘catfish’-in a tank full of baby sharks

Aug 9, 2024 | finance.yahoo.com | Clay Chandler |Nicholas Gordon

Good morning from Hong Kong. Tesla has long been the driving force of the global electric vehicle revolution.
How Singapore became a data center hub despite its small size, expensive energy, and hot climate

Aug 2, 2024 | finance.yahoo.com | Clay Chandler |Nicholas Gordon

Good morning from Hong Kong. Like a lot of people, I now use ChatGPT just about every day. Prompt, response; prompt, response. It’s simple, fast, cheap, and (mostly) reliable—almost like magic. But that magic depends on a sprawling network of very real infrastructure—GPUs, servers, data centers, cooling systems, undersea cables—and consumes a staggering amount of energy. But I’m newly conscious of that infrastructure since touring a mammoth data center in Singapore a few weeks ago.

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19 Nov 24

RT @GitaGopinath: Crypto mining and data centers together accounted for 2 percent of world electricity demand in 2022. And that share is li…

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13 Nov 24

RT @GitaGopinath: Had an excellent conversation with @claychandler at the #FortuneGlobalForum covering the global outlook, debt, AI, & Chin…

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9 Aug 24

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Articles

IDEO, home of 'design thinking', picks former partner Mike Peng to help clients embrace AI without losing their humanity

Malaysia aspires to provide the backbone of the global AI boom. Will the bet pay off?

How DeepSeek, deep pockets, and data centers are giving Asia an AI edge

The nine lives of Masayoshi Son

Dodgers owner Todd Boehly thinks the Shohei Ohtani-led team is the ‘obvious choice’ to take baseball global—if only MLB would let him profit from it

The company that’s building on the moon

The company that's building on the moon

Women in Asia are slowly starting to break through historic barriers to the top of the corporate world

In China, Tesla is a ‘catfish’-in a tank full of baby sharks

How Singapore became a data center hub despite its small size, expensive energy, and hot climate

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