Core view
Data center is an important infrastructure of digital economy. On the one hand, China is continuously promoting the construction of computing power. In the past 16-20 years, the average annual growth rate of China’s in-service data center rack scale has exceeded 30%, while the three-year action plan for the development of new data centers (2021-2023) stipulates that the data center rack scale will still maintain an average annual growth rate of about 20% by the end of 2023. On the other hand, under the increasingly tense situation of land and energy, China pays attention to promoting the rational layout of data centers. In May 21, the national development and Reform Commission proposed to lay out and build the national hub node of the national integrated computing network, accelerate the implementation of the “East West computing” project, and improve the level of cross regional computing scheduling. Recently, the national development and Reform Commission has successively approved the construction of 8 National Computing hub nodes and 10 national data center clusters in Inner Mongolia, Guizhou, Gansu, Ningxia, Beijing Tianjin Hebei, Yangtze River Delta, Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Dawan district and Chengdu Chongqing, marking the completion of the layout design of the national integrated big data center system and the official and comprehensive start of the “East data and West computing” project. The national development and Reform Commission previously said that the layout, construction, positioning and functions of these two groups of nodes are different. Guizhou should build a non real-time computing power guarantee base for the whole country, and Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei should serve the implementation of major regional development strategies. In terms of construction objectives, the national development and Reform Commission requires the average shelf rate of the above data centers to be no less than 65%. In terms of energy consumption target, the national development and Reform Commission requires the power utilization efficiency of data centers in Guizhou and other four places to be controlled below 1.2, and that of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei to be controlled within 1.25. The national development and Reform Commission said that the implementation of the “counting from the east to the west” project is conducive to promoting green development and expanding effective investment while improving the overall computing power level of the country
