Recently, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), the Central Internet Information Office (CIIO), the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), and the National Energy Administration (NEA) jointly issued a notice agreeing to start the construction of a national computing hub node in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, the Yangtze River Delta (YRD), the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao-Great Bay Area (GHMA), Chengdu-Chongqing, Inner Mongolia, Guizhou, Gansu, Ningxia, and so on, and to plan for 10 national data center clusters. This is the first time that a nationally integrated big data center system has completed its overall layout and design, and the "East Counts, West Counts" project has officially begun in full swing.

Calculation power is similar to water in the agricultural era

Electricity in the industrial era

The digital economy is becoming a key force in restructuring elemental resources, reshaping the economic structure, and enhancing market competitiveness, and the digitalization of digital industries is an important direction in the transformation and upgrading of the Chinese economy. The company's business is a major player in the industry, and it's a major player in the market. In recent years, with the accelerated progress of digital transformation and upgrading of various industries, especially the rapid popularization and application of new technologies such as 5G, artificial intelligence, and the Internet of Things, the total amount of data in the whole society has exploded, and the demand for data storage, computing, transmission, and application has increased dramatically, so there is an urgent need to promote the reasonable layout of data centers, optimize the supply and demand, green intensification, and interconnection, and to build data centers, cloud computing, and big data integration of a The new arithmetic network system.

Relevant research reports show that, on average, every 1 percentage point increase in the computing power index, the digital economy and GDP will grow by 3.3‰ and 1.8‰, respectively. At present, data centers, supercomputing centers and other computing power infrastructure represented by accelerated construction is becoming an important pedestal to support the development of the digital economy. According to statistics, the average annual growth rate of China's data increment is more than 30%.

On January 12, the State Council issued the "14th Five-Year" Digital Economy Development Plan. As the first five-year plan for the digital economy, the plan puts forward, "14th Five-Year" period, China's digital economy to deepen the application, standardize the development of the new stage of universal **** enjoy. The construction of data center clusters, accelerate the implementation of the "East Digital West Computing" project, continue to promote the construction of green digital center.

As the key node of the "East Counts West Counts" project, the national hub node of the national integrated arithmetic network is the backbone node of China's arithmetic network. Within the national hub node, several data center clusters are gradually planned and developed.

In addition to the four national data center clusters released in January 2022, namely the Helinger cluster located in the Inner Mongolia hub, the Guian cluster located in the Guizhou hub, the Qingyang cluster located in the Gansu hub, and the Zhongwei cluster located in the Ningxia hub, this time, the National Development and Reform Commission and other departments have released six more national data center clusters, namely, the Zhangjiakou cluster located in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei hub, the Yangtze River Delta cluster located in the Yangtze River Delta hub Zhangjiakou cluster located in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei hub, Yangtze River Delta cluster and Wuhu cluster located in the Yangtze River Delta hub, Shaoguan cluster located in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao hub, Tianfu cluster and Chongqing cluster located in the Chengdu-Chongqing hub. These 10 clusters have clear geographical boundaries and provide sufficient policy protection and facilities to support the construction of large-scale and mega data centers of various industries within the clusters. Between the clusters and the clusters, a high-speed data center direct connection network is established.

Eastern supply of "numbers"

Western counting "numbers"

Like the " In May 2021, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), the Central Internet Information Office (CIIO), the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), and the National Energy Administration (NEA) issued the "National Integrated In May 2021, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Central Network Information Office, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and the National Energy Board issued the "National Integrated Big Data Center Collaborative Innovation System Arithmetic Hub Implementation Plan" (hereinafter referred to as the "Implementation Plan"), which explicitly proposes to lay out the construction of the national arithmetic network of the national hub nodes, accelerate the implementation of the "East counts West counts" project, and build a national arithmetic network system.

The Implementation Program specifies the layout and construction of the national hub nodes of the national integrated arithmetic network, respectively, Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Yangtze River Delta, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, Chengdu-Chongqing, and Guizhou, Inner Mongolia, Gansu, Ningxia and other eight regions.

Entering the data center area, standing outside the promenade, looking through the glass at the server room, dense servers running efficiently, robots shuttle among them real-time inspection ...... Huawei Cloud Gui'an data center located in Guizhou Gui'an New District construction is completed at the end of 2021 officially commercial, which is also the largest data center in Huawei Cloud history! that will reach a scale of 1 million servers in the future. In recent years, Guizhou has capitalized on its advantages in climate, energy, and geology to pre-empt the layout of new digital infrastructure. Today, seven mega data centers are located in Gui'an New District alone. The national strategy of "counting on the east and counting on the west" brings new opportunities for Guizhou.

In December 2021, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) and other departments replied in the "Reply Letter on the Consent of Guizhou Province to Start Setting Up a National Hub Node of the National Integrated Arithmetic Network", that around the Gui'an National Data Center Cluster, they would grasp the optimization of the stock, enhance the efficiency of the utilization of resources, and actively undertake the arithmetic needs of the eastern region, mainly in support of the Yangtze River Delta, Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao Greater Bay Area. The reply clarified that Gui'an National Data Center Cluster should urgently complete the construction target of the start-up area: the average data center on-shelf rate is no less than 65%. The data center power utilization efficiency is controlled below 1.2, and the use of renewable energy is significantly increased.

The relevant person in charge of the National Development and Reform Commission's Department of High Technology recently said in response to questions about the layout of the construction of the national arithmetic hub node that, regarding the layout and construction of the two batches of eight nodes, the positioning is different, and the role played is different.

Specifically, Guizhou, Inner Mongolia, Gansu, Ningxia, the four nodes to build a nationally oriented non-real-time arithmetic protection base. Positioned to continuously improve the quality of arithmetic services and utilization efficiency, give full play to their resource advantages, consolidate the network and other basic security, and actively undertake nationwide back-end processing, offline analysis, storage and backup, and other non-real-time arithmetic needs. The four nodes of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Yangtze River Delta, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and Chengdu-Chongqing are to serve the needs of the implementation of major regional development strategies. Positioned to further integrate the layout of data centers within the city and surrounding regions, to achieve sustainable coordination of large-scale arithmetic deployment and resources such as land, energy, water, electricity, etc., to optimize the supply structure of data centers, and to expand the space for arithmetic growth.

"To be like 'South-to-North Water Transfer' 'West-to-East Power Transfer', play the advantages of China's institutional mechanism, integrated and coordinated layout from a national perspective, optimize resource allocation, and enhance the efficiency of resource use. " Sun Wei said.

Continuously optimize the data center

Energy efficiency

"East counts west counts" project implementation, and the goal of green intensive inseparable. It is worth noting that while data centers support the rapid development of the digital economy, it cannot be ignored that energy consumption and carbon emissions are growing rapidly due to the large amount of power required to maintain infrastructure such as servers, storage devices, backup units, cooling systems, etc. Data centers require a large amount of power to maintain the operation of servers, storage devices, backup units, and cooling systems.

China Electronic Technology Standardization Institute released the "Green Data Center White Paper 2020" pointed out that in recent years, China's data center energy efficiency level continues to improve, the average power utilization rate (PUE) of mega data centers is 1.46, and some of the best green data centers have been the world's leading, PUE up to 1.2-1.3. However, at present, China's data center energy consumption is still in the high rate of total growth, significantly higher than the world average. On the one hand, this is because the scale of China's data center construction is growing faster, and on the other hand, China's data center energy saving has more room for improvement. Under the guidance and requirements of the "dual-carbon" goal, energy saving and emission reduction in data centers is imperative.

In November 2021, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) and other departments issued the "Implementation of the Carbon Peak and Carbon Neutral Goal Requirements to Promote the Implementation of Green and High-Quality Development of Data Centers and New Infrastructure such as 5G" (hereinafter referred to as the "Program"), which puts forward specific objectives for promoting the green and high-quality development of data centers and new infrastructure such as 5G.

The Program states that by 2025, data centers and 5G will basically form a green and intensive integrated operation pattern. The national average power utilization efficiency of newly built large and super-large data centers has dropped to less than 1.3, and the national hub nodes have further dropped to less than 1.25, and the green and low-carbon grade has reached more than 4A. The utilization rate of western data centers has increased from 30% to more than 50%, and the supply and demand of computing power in the east and west are more balanced.

For the significance of the implementation of the "East and West Computing" project, Sun Wei gave four "favorable". Specifically, the first is conducive to improving the overall level of national computing power. Through the construction of a national integrated data center layout, expanding the scale of computing facilities, improving the efficiency of computing power use, and realizing the scale and intensification of the national computing power.

Second, it is conducive to promoting green development. Increasing the layout of data centers in the west will significantly increase the proportion of green energy used in data centers, which will help to consume green energy in the west, and at the same time continue to optimize the efficiency of data center energy use through technological innovation, exchange of large for small, low-carbon development and other measures.

Third, it is conducive to expanding effective investment. The data center industry chain is long, the investment scale is large, and the driving effect is strong. Through the construction of arithmetic hubs and data center clusters, the upstream and downstream investment in the industry will be strongly driven.

Fourth, it is conducive to promoting regional coordinated development. Sun Wei pointed out that through the layout of the arithmetic facilities from east to west, will drive the effective transfer of related industries, promote the east and west data circulation, value transfer, extend the eastern development space, help form a new pattern of western development.