Xinhua News Agency, Guiyang, September 24th, title: "Eastern numbers and Western numbers": Strive to build a "new economic map" in the digital age
Xinhua News Agency reporters Li Ziliang, Wang Li, Pan Dexin
Throughout the previous technological revolutions of mankind, every time it is a re-arrangement of productivity, a new infrastructure "network" will be weaved.
The steam era has laid out a "railway network", the electrical era has built a "grid", and the digital economy era is weaving a "computing power network".
Whoever takes the lead in optimizing and upgrading Hash Power Network will be able to occupy the commanding heights of future development.
In order to build a new computing power network system, China established the "Eastern Data and Western Computing" industry alliance in September 2020. In May of this year, it launched the construction of the national hub node of the national integrated computing power network to accelerate the "Eastern Data and Western Computing" project.
At present, "Eastern Data and Western Calculation" is being promoted in western regions such as Guizhou, Ningxia, Gansu, etc. All parties are working hard to form a new pattern of computing power with Chinese characteristics, or will build a "new economic map" in the digital age.
Optimize the computing power network to enhance the international competitiveness of the "big data country"
The data released at the 2021 China International Big Data Industry Expo shows that since 2015, my country's data increment has grown at an average annual rate of more than 30%; in 2019, my country's data volume accounted for about 9.3% of the world's total, ranking second in the world.
"Data resources are China's biggest advantage in the development of the digital economy." Chen Yubo, Secretary of the Party Committee and Deputy Dean of the School of Economics and Management of Tsinghua University, believes that the forward-looking digital infrastructure construction of the Chinese government will transform the advantages of the ultra-large-scale market and demographic dividends into data dividends. .
Shen Zhulin, Director of the Department of Innovation and High-Tech Development of the National Development and Reform Commission, believes that with the explosive growth of the total amount of data in the whole society, China has become a global data resource country and has become the world’s most active, potential and environmental big data application. One of the best countries.
In the era of digital economy, whether it is enterprise development or national competition, whoever has massive data and advanced computing power can occupy the commanding heights of development and take the initiative in development.
The "2020 Global Computing Power Index Evaluation Report" released by Inspur Information and International Data Corporation (IDC) shows that for every 1 point increase in the computing power index, the digital economy and GDP will increase by 3.3‰ and 1.8‰ respectively.
But for a long time, China's computing power level has been difficult to meet the huge computing demand brought about by the surge in data volume.
One of the important reasons is the imbalance between supply and demand and the development disorder of data centers that carry computing power: the first-tier cities in the east are "squeezed and broken" and tend to be saturated, while in other regions, especially parts of the western region, "unmanned use" has a low utilization rate.
In order to further strengthen the overall layout of the national integrated big data center, in May this year, the National Development and Reform Commission and other relevant departments issued the "National Integrated Big Data Center Collaborative Innovation System Computing Hub Implementation Plan", clarifying the Triangle, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, Chengyu, and Guizhou, Inner Mongolia, Gansu, Ningxia and other places lay out the national hub nodes of the national integrated computing power network, and accelerate the implementation of the "Eastern Data and Western Calculation" project.
Interviewed experts believe that "Eastern Data and Western Calculation" is a systematic project to seize the strategic opportunity period for accelerating the development of the digital economy and build a new pattern of computing power. It will further accelerate the pace of my country's digital infrastructure construction and inject new impetus into the construction of a digital power.
Ma Ningyu, director of the Guizhou Provincial Big Data Development Administration and deputy secretary of the Guiyang Municipal Party Committee, said that in the era of steam and electricity, China has fallen behind. When the Internet emerged, China was catching up. In the current new generation of information technology revolution represented by big data, China is at least on the same starting line.
Open up the "number" arteries and promote the coordinated development of the east and the west
Walking into the Huawei Cloud Data Center next to Jinma Avenue in Gui'an New District, Guizhou Province, rows of red and yellow European-style buildings are reflected in the clear artificial lake, which is picturesque.
The first feeling here is that it is a leisure resort, rather than the largest data center that Huawei has deployed in the world.
Dong Libin, head of Huawei Cloud Marketing Department, introduced that the center is an important bearer node for Huawei Cloud's business in the southwest region, and its service scope can radiate to surrounding areas such as Chongqing, Guangxi, Guangdong, Yunnan, and Sichuan.
"Place hot data in the east and cold data in the west to achieve the best overall energy efficiency." Dong Libin told reporters that Huawei Cloud has two cloud data centers in Gui'an New District and Ulan Chabu, Inner Mongolia. There are three core data centers in Shanghai, Langfang, Hebei, and Dongguan, Guangdong. More than 2.3 million servers can be deployed after all are put into production.
The Huawei Cloud Data Center in Gui’an will become Huawei’s global management data storage center, global IT maintenance engineer base, and employee internal training and internship base. It requires 600 to 800 IT maintenance engineers. On average, about 10,000 people will enter the park every year for a panoramic view. Realization of combat training, internships, etc. can not only promote the development of big data-related industries, but also stimulate the development of local service industries.
"The cross-domain flow of data elements brought about by the "Eastern Data and Western Calculation" is an important path to achieve industrial aggregation and balanced regional development. The convergence and traction effect of the data center on the local industrial chain in Guizhou has gradually emerged." Quantum Information and University of Guizhou Province Said Pan Weijie, deputy dean of the Institute of Data Application Technology.
Gui'an Huawei Cloud Data Center is a vivid case of "Eastern Data and Western Calculation".
In Guizhou, the country's first comprehensive test area for big data, there are 23 key data centers in operation and under construction; the western cloud base in Zhongwei City, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region has built 6 super-large data centers including Amazon AWS and Meri Cloud; Qingyang, Gansu, an important node city on the golden section of the Silk Road Economic Belt, has attracted data centers from 12 companies including Huawei, HKUST Xunfei, and Jinshan Cloud.
Experts believe that the use of data flow to lead the flow of resources, capital, talent, and technology will help to open up the main artery of the digital economy in the east and the west and form a new pattern of coordinated development between the east and the west with data as the link.
"It not only eases the energy shortage in the east, but also opens up a new development path for the west." Ma Ningyu said that Guizhou will explore "Guizhou data transaction market + eastern data circulation resources", "Guizhou computing power network hub + eastern computing power resource demand" "And other cooperation models, to achieve the organic connection between the supply of high-quality elements in Guizhou and the mature markets in the eastern region, and to create a new data-driven digital cooperation ecology between the east and the west.
"'Eastern data and western calculation' has innovated the cooperation model between the east and the west." China Southern Power Grid will invest about 10 billion yuan in the construction of the Southern Energy Data Center in Guizhou. Industrial integration, factor flow, and computing power collaboration between the two countries will further release the multiplier effect of regional cooperation and achieve win-win development.
In line with the "dual carbon" goal, promote the green and sustainable development of the digital economy
Ningxia Zhongwei, a small desert city located in the west of my country.
The inland hinterland, barren mountains and Gobi, and biting cold wind were once the shortcomings that restricted its economic development.
Today, these shortcomings have become the unique advantages of Zhongwei City in developing cloud computing and big data industries.
Because the inland hinterland and other location characteristics ensure the safety of the computer room, the development of the barren mountain and Gobi can provide abundant land resources, and the annual average temperature of 8.8 degrees Celsius is the natural endowment of the cooling of the computer room. "Western Computing" non-real-time computing power guarantee base, information technology application innovation base, and regional digital industry base.
Zhuang Ning, general manager of Ningxia Western Cloud Base Technology Co., Ltd. said: "By adopting natural air cooling technology and lower electricity prices, our data center with 1,008 racks can save 3 million yuan in electricity bills a year compared with the eastern provinces. About. Rack rent is only about one-third of that in eastern provinces."
Data centers are called "non-smoke steel mills" and "electric tigers". Electricity costs account for the "largest" of their operating costs. A super-large data center consumes nearly 100 million kilowatt-hours of electricity each year.
Under the goal of carbon peak and carbon neutrality, how to achieve efficient, clean, intensive, and cyclical green development is a "difficult problem" and a "must answer" in front of the data center.
"Counting east and west" is undoubtedly the starting point for "breaking the problem".
For a long time, the eastern region has a large demand for computing power due to its proximity to users, but it is difficult to build a new data center due to energy consumption restrictions and high power costs. Although the data resources in the western region are not as good as the eastern region, it is rich in energy and has a suitable climate.
"Eastern data and western calculation" will help realize the complementarity of data resources and energy supply between the east and the west, and promote the green development of data centers.
According to Yu Shiyang, director of the Big Data Development Department of the National Information Center, according to estimates, the power consumption of my country's data centers relying on the "West-to-East Power Transmission" is about 2.144 billion kWh, and the average power consumption is about 6%.
"Eastern data and west calculation" and "West-to-East power transmission" will build large or larger data centers nearby in the northwest wind and light abandoned areas, which can not only promote the development and utilization of clean energy, but also reduce power consumption and further reduce carbon emissions.
(Participated in the collection and writing: Xu Jinyu, Wang Mingyu)