The iCloud Gui'an New District main data center will also be Apple's first data center project in China, and will be used to store the data of Apple users in China when the project is completed. When it is completed and put into use, Chinese users will not have to transmit data back and forth across the long distances between China and the United States to upload and download data, increasing speed and reducing latency.

Lisa Jackson, Apple's vice president of environment, policy and social affairs, said, "Users in China love using iCloud to securely store photos, videos, documents and apps and keep them synchronized and up-to-date across all of their devices, and I believe this new partnership will improve the iCloud user experience in China by reducing latency and increasing reliability. experience."

Cloud on Guizhou Big Data Industry Development Co., Ltd. was approved by the Guizhou Provincial People's Government in November 2014, with a registered capital of 235 million yuan, and is supervised by the Guizhou Big Data Development Administration, which performs the duties of a funder, and by the Guizhou Supervisory Board of State-Owned Enterprises.