In recent years, with the accelerated integration of digital economy and real economy, general information technology with digital technology as the core is promoting a new round of technological revolution and industrial reform all over the world, which has a profound impact on the way of value creation. 5g, artificial intelligence, big data, metauniverse, intelligent driving, cloud computing, privacy computing, digital twinning, quantitative trading and industrial Internet have created rich application scenarios for the value symbiosis between digital economy and real economy.
According to the report of China information and Communication Research Institute, the scale of China’s digital economy will reach 39.2 trillion yuan in 2020, and the proportion of digital economy in GDP will increase from 14.2% in 2005 to 38.6% in 2020. It has gradually become an important driving force to promote China’s economic development. Digital economy is becoming an important economic form that has a profound impact on the reform of productivity and promote high-quality economic development after agricultural economy and industrial economy.
The 14th five year plan for digital economy development of the State Council points out that by 2025, the digital economy will move towards a period of comprehensive expansion, the proportion of the added value of the core industries of the digital economy in GDP will increase from 7.8% in 2020 to 10%, the ability of digital innovation to lead development will be greatly improved, the level of intelligence will be significantly enhanced, the integration of digital technology and the real economy has achieved remarkable results, and the digital economy governance system will be more perfect, The competitiveness and influence of China’s digital economy have increased steadily.
As an important infrastructure and core base in the upstream of the digital economy industrial chain, the data center has enjoyed unlimited scenery in recent years. Whether it is the “digital industrialization” in the middle reaches of the digital economy or the “industrial digitization” in the downstream, everything is based on the development and improvement of the infrastructure of the upstream “data center”, and then provide comprehensive digital services for various scenes in the downstream through various applications in the middle reaches. The recently popular metauniverse is to realize the virtual combination of digital reality by sinking various applications in the midstream into relevant downstream scenes. The Beijing Vastdata Technology Co.Ltd(603138) computing brought by it in the future will have a profound impact on the development and reform of the data center industry.
For the third-party data center service provider Shanghai Athub Co.Ltd(603881) which has accompanied the rapid growth of cloud computing in China as early as 2009, more than ten years of industry cultivation has brought it rich experience and technical accumulation. In recent years, it is like a duck to water in its development. In just three years, it has reached a five fold increase in the operation scale in early 2019. According to the financial report of Shanghai Athub Co.Ltd(603881) 2021, the company achieved an operating revenue of 1.206 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 32.55%; The net cash flow from operating activities was 715 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 327.25%. As of the disclosure date of the annual report, 9 new data centers have been added, and a total of 34 data centers have been built and operated. The total it load has reached about 366.82 megawatts (MW), which is converted into about 733645 kW standard cabinets, ranking among the top three third-party IDC service providers in China.
Shanghai Athub Co.Ltd(603881) ‘s rapid development reflects the high dependence and strong demand of the market on head IDC service providers to a certain extent. The reporter learned that as a backbone IDC leading enterprise in China, Shanghai Athub Co.Ltd(603881) has completed the advance layout of hub node data centers such as Beijing Tianjin Hebei, Yangtze River Delta, Guangdong, Hong Kong, Macao Dawan district and Western Inner Mongolia. It has already “rushed” to gain the first mover advantage before the full launch of the national “counting East and counting West” policy, which fully shows the high market foresight and sensitivity of Shanghai Athub Co.Ltd(603881) company as the head IDC service provider.