(Economic Observation) Chinese technology companies increase the layout of new infrastructure for computing power
China News Service, Beijing, February 22 (Reporter Liu Yuying) The western region of China is rich in resources, but the demand for data centers is not high and the supply is excessive; the demand for data centers in the eastern region is strong, but the supply is limited by resources and energy, and the supply is in short supply.
China's recently launched "East and West" project will bring new development opportunities to China's technology industry.
According to official news, the “East Counting and Western Counting” project will start the construction of national computing power hub nodes in 8 places including Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Yangtze River Delta, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, Chengdu-Chongqing, Inner Mongolia, Guizhou, Gansu, and Ningxia. 10 national data center clusters.
So far, the overall layout design of the national integrated big data center system has been completed.
Different from traditional data centers, the national integrated big data center integrates data centers, communication networks, cloud computing, big data, artificial intelligence and security to build a new information infrastructure system.
He Baohong, director of the Cloud Computing and Big Data Research Institute of the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, said that the western region has natural resources and cost advantages. The construction of data centers can not only bring investment to the local area, but also help the local industrial structure adjustment and economic transformation. The construction of computing power infrastructure leverages the drainage and development of upper-layer applications.
Many technology companies have already deployed computing power networks.
China Telecom is the largest and most widely distributed IDC service provider in China, with 794 data centers and 500,000 racks.
The national layout is carried out according to the "2+4+31+X" structure, which is highly consistent with the location selection and business positioning of the national hub nodes of the national integrated big data center, as well as the classification of core clusters and urban data centers.
Huawei has deployed five data centers across the country. Among them, Gui'an and Ulanqab are the two cloud data centers of Huawei Cloud's "one south and one north", and there are also three cores in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, the Yangtze River Delta, and Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macau regions. data center.
The seven core cloud data centers of Inspur Cloud are located in Jinan, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chongqing, Kunming, and Bozhou, as well as in Chengdu-Chongqing, Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Yangtze River Delta, and Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
Sugon, Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu, etc. have also deployed computing infrastructure.
The launch of the "East Number and West Calculation" project will guide social capital to invest more in computing infrastructure, especially in the western region.
China Telecom said that it will further accelerate the land acquisition and construction work in the eight hub nodes.
At the same time, further optimize the ratio of computing power infrastructure in the east and west, from the current 7:3 to 6:4 at the end of the "14th Five-Year Plan".
Some data centers will continue to start the second phase of construction.
The Gui'an data center is planned to be Huawei's largest cloud data center in the world, which can accommodate 1 million servers. The first phase has now been put into use.
The first phase of China Mobile's data center in Guangxi has been completed and put into operation. There are two phases of the center, with a total investment of 2.5 billion yuan (RMB, the same below).
Liu Guiqing, deputy general manager of China Telecom Group Co., Ltd., said that from the perspective of computing resources, "East Digital and Western Computing" will further promote the intensive distribution of China Telecom's computing resources to core areas, making resource allocation more accurate and resource utilization more efficient. Effectively make up for the shortage of resources in the east, while fully revitalizing the resources in the west.
Building data centers in the west will also reduce energy costs.
Liu Guiqing said that the energy consumption of data centers has always been high. Taking China Telecom as an example, the power consumption of data centers will reach 5.6 billion kWh in 2021, accounting for 20% of the total power consumption.
The layout of the integrated big data center requires the efficient coordination of the energy network and the computing power network, which will reduce operating costs to a certain extent.
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