The "East Digital West Calculation" project is fully launched

Data source: National Development and Reform Commission, China Xintong Institute

In February of this year, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Central Cyberspace Office, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and the National Energy Administration jointly issued a notice to agree to in Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, the Yangtze River Delta, Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao Greater Bay Area, Chengdu -Chongqing, Inner Mongolia, Guizhou, Gansu, Gansu Ningxia and other 8 places launched the construction of the national computing power hub nodes, and planned 10 national data centers clusters. my country's integrated big data center system has completed the overall layout design, and the "East Digital West Calculation" project is officially launched.

As another important national strategic project after "West Qi East Instead", "Western Delivery", "South Water and North Diversion", what is the far -reaching significance of "East Digital West Calculation"? What is the current new computing power network system? The reporter interviewed relevant enterprises and experts.

Help my country's data center supply and demand balance, realize low -carbon, green, and sustainable development

Hohhot 20 kilometers south, in the big data cloud computing information park in Qingcheng, the 10,000 IDC (Internet data centers) racks that are constantly running for 24 hours allow the silent grassland to surging computing power.

One of the largest domestic cloud computing data centers, one of the largest domestic cloud computing data centers, China Unicom Hohhot Cloud Data Center, is an important part of the layout of the eight major computing pivot hubs of China Unicom. project. At present, more than 100 government -enterprise customers including state ministries and commissions, government agencies, internationally renowned cloud computing manufacturers, large Internet manufacturers, and bank insurance institutions have settled in.

"The average temperature of Hohhot's annual temperature is 8 degrees Celsius, and the natural cold source refrigeration is used for about 5 months a year." According to the relevant person in charge of China Unicom Hohhot Cloud Data Center, China Unicom and Hohht Cloud Data Center introduced that the "cooling tower+plate heat exchanger" was used to cool down. It can save 5 million kilowatt -hours per year.

"With the rapid development of new technologies such as 5G, my country's data resource storage, computing and application requirements have been continuously improved, driving high -speed growth in data centers." He Baohong, director of the Institute of Cloud Computing and Big Data of China Xintong Institute, introduced that in the past 5 years, my country The average annual growth rate of data center racks exceeds 30%, while a large -scale data center consumption usually reaches 100 kilowatt -hours.

According to the research data of the Open Data Center Committee, the total energy consumption of China's data center in 2020 was 93.9 billion kWh, and the carbon emissions were 64.64 million tons. It is estimated that by 2030, the total energy consumption will reach about 380 billion kilowatt -hours. If green energy is not used, the total carbon emissions will exceed 200 million tons, accounting for about 2%of the country's total carbon emissions.

Promote the "East Digital West Calculation" project. By constructing a new type of computing power network system that integrates data centers, cloud computing, and big data, the demand for computing power in the east to the west can be used to give full play to the climate, energy, environment, etc. in the western region Advantages, expanding renewable energy supply and nearby disappearance, which is not only conducive to alleviating the problem of energy supply in the eastern region, but also helps our data centers in my country to achieve low -carbon, green, and sustainable development.

"Using resources in the western region to undertake demand in the eastern region can gradually improve the imbalance between the supply and demand of data centers in my country and help cultivate my country's oversized data element market." He Baohong pointed out that the "East Digital West Calculation" project helps to improve my country's major regions in China The network capabilities between and each data center, thereby improving the level of network interconnection nationwide.

"Promoting the 'East Digital West Calculation' Project is an important project to solve the problem of imbalanced development in my country." Li Hongwu, Dean of the China Unicom Research Institute, said that "East Digital West Calculation" is not only conducive to promoting the balance of regional and industries. Development is also conducive to improving the overall ability of the industrial chain to resist risk. Just as "West Delivery East" and "West Qi East Instead" solve energy problems, "East Digital West Calculation" can not only bring investment to the west through new infrastructure construction, help the local real estate industry adjustment and economic transformation, but also calculate The construction of infrastructure to pry the drainage and development of the upper -level applications has driven the cooperative development of the nation's digital economy.

Drive the investment of about 400 billion yuan each year, providing a broad market for industrial chain companies

"On the day of the launch, the 12 companies signed a contract and settled in, and the use power utilization rate reached more than 90%, realizing the launch of saturated operations." On May 10th, the "computing power system" of Chengyu hub as a national integration big data center, the southwest region, and the southwest region The largest artificial intelligence computing center -Chengdu Intelligent Comegrated Center was officially launched.

According to the relevant person in charge of Chengdu Intelligence Center, this computing center with a total investment scale of about 10.9 billion yuan, including the three major platforms including the artificial intelligence computing power platform, the urban smart brain platform and the scientific research innovation platform. Among them, the first phase of the artificial intelligence computing power platform uses an artificial intelligence cluster based on Huawei Shengteng artificial intelligence basic software and hardware, which is equivalent to the computing power of 150,000 high -performance personal computers.

"Huawei is through the continuous innovation of ICT (information and communication technology) connection and computing technology, digital energy to provide customers with competitive products and solutions for customers participating in 'East Digital and West Calculation", "said Guo Ping, chairman of Huawei Supervisory Committee. It is understood that more than 20 cities are currently planning and building an artificial intelligence computing center, which has jointly released a series of industry solutions such as "Shengteng Wisdom", "Shengteng Wisdom" and "Shengteng Wisdom" jointly released by Huawei and partners. Provide a broad market.

"'East Digital and West Calculation' Engineering Layout is large, data transmission is more frequent, users have higher requirements for low latency, and the performance of the existing backbone network is difficult to compete." Wang Tiejun said that "East Digital and West Calculation" will effectively promote the transmission rate of the backbone network from 100G to 200G, 400G and other higher speeds, which brings new market opportunities to Changfei Fiber. According to reports, in 2021, the new product developed by Changfei Company helped China Mobile to achieve a long -range single -length single -load 800G large -capacity transmission of 1,100 kilometers. This year, Changfei Company won the largest share of China Telecom and China Mobile's new -generation fiber optic cable centralized procurement project. Also fancy the potential of the "East Digital and West Calculation" engineering market, there are also major server manufacturers. Since the completion of the first phase of the Zijin Cloud Data Center High -performance Computing Center in Jinchang, Gansu, it has reached a cooperation intention with the Shanghai and Wuxi Supercomputing Center on the "East Digital West Calculation" project.

"Zijinyun uses Lenovo high -performance computing solutions, and has installed 100 Lenovo high -density rack computing nodes, 50 Lenovo artificial intelligence servers, and distributed storage systems." Huang Yan, general manager of Lenovo Infrastructure Program Business Group Political and Education Industry It is said that the "East Digital and West Calculation" project brings great benefits to the data center industry, and the prosperity of the server industry will continue. According to estimates, the growth rate of China's server market revenue will exceed 10%in 2022. At present, domestic servers have quickly grown into my country's main force for computing power. Domestic server manufacturers such as Lenovo and Inspur ranks among the top five in my country's server market, and the overall market share has reached 74%. Huang Yan said that under the drive of the "East Digital West Calculation" project, this share will be further increased.

Yu Xiaohui, president of the China Institute of Information and Communication, introduced that as of 2021, the total scale of my country ’s data center rack was 5.2 million, the market revenue of the Internet data center reached 150 billion yuan, and the cloud computing market size was 303 billion yuan. It is expected that the average annual growth rate of data center racks during the "14th Five -Year Plan" period will remain at about 20%, and the growth rate of income will remain at 25%to 30%; the average annual growth rate of cloud computing income is expected to exceed 30%.

Xu Bin, deputy director of the National Development and Reform Commission's Innovation Driven Development Center, said that the "East Nigne West Calculation" project can drive about 400 billion yuan each year; at the same time, after the construction of computing power facilities, it will bring information technology, green energy and other industries to the west Chance.

Consolidate computing power, network infrastructure construction, establish a new mechanism for cross -domain storage and management of data

On March 31, China Telecom Hangzhou Big Data Center project was officially started in Xiaoshan District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, with a total investment of 5 billion yuan.

On May 29, the national integrated computing power network of the Guangdong -Hong Kong -Macao Greater Bay Area national hub node Shaoguan cluster officially started. By 2025, the Shaoguan data center cluster will build a standard rack and 5 million servers, with an investment of over 50 billion yuan.

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As the main force of my country's data center construction, in recent years, the three basic telecommunications operators, third -party Internet data center operators, and Internet companies have accelerated the construction of computing power networks. Among the current data centers in my country, about 5.2 million standard racks, the western region accounts for 20%.

Along with the advancement of the "East Digital West Calculation" project, the data producers and computing power users located downstream of the industrial chain will choose to store and calculate the data in the west?

"The total cost of the data center includes two parts: investment construction cost and operating costs." Ding Hongqing, deputy general manager of the Ministry of Planning and Construction of China, said that the operating costs such as water and electricity costs, operation and maintenance costs, and management expenses accounted for about 20%of the total cost, and electricity bills The proportion of operating costs exceeds 50%. "The western region can not only realize the cold source of natural cold sources, save electricity, but also have a certain advantage over the Eastern region." Ding Hongqing said.

However, due to the gap between network capabilities, technical capabilities, talent systems, market environment, and application scenarios, the western region still faces many difficulties in the development of big data. Ding Hongqing suggested to actively explore the establishment of a new mechanism for cross -domain storage and management of data, build an efficient and flexible resource dispatch system, enhance the "East Digital West Calculation" project experience, simultaneously study the value -added service and industrial cultivation mechanism of data operation, and introduce relevant support policies. Effectively help the central and western regions to rely on data centers to build technical capabilities, talent reserves and service levels.

"Data storage and computing links, large investment and long return time. If the western region rely only on financial subsidy electricity bills and land transfer funds, it is difficult to last." The industrial chain to improve the ecology of the data center and focus on expanding the upstream and downstream industries of big data. For example, the data pre -processing industry can be developed upstream, including the labeling of data, cleaning and desensitization, and carrying out local data mining services. Develop downstream to introduce hardware parts in the big data industry chain, such as hardware facilities such as production server edge computer rooms, as well as the establishment of engineering and operation and maintenance teams, and providing engineering services for data center machine room construction.

In addition to looking for expansion opportunities upstream and downstream in the big data industry chain, the "East Digital West Calculation" project can also make articles on the differentiation of data. According to reports, due to the different demand for timeliness, data is divided into "cold data" and "hot data". "Cold data" generally refers to the lack of time -effective demand. Data processing is mostly business types such as background processing, offline analysis, and reserved backup, accounting for about 70%of the total amount of data, which is suitable for the west. "Hot Data" requires high processing time and needs to make decisions and calculations immediately, such as autonomous driving, remote medical, industrial Internet, financial securities, disaster warning, video calls, artificial intelligence reasoning, etc. High and transmission costs are also high, and it is more suitable for handling in the east and even the surrounding enterprises. "From the construction of data centers to the cross -domain circulation of data elements, the implementation of the" East Digital West Calculation "project is a systematic topic. In addition to continuing to consolidate the technical strength of infrastructure, network, computing power, it also needs to be more complete and scientific. Policies and mechanisms are realized. "He Baohong said. It is understood that first -tier cities such as Beishang, Guangzhou and Shenzhen are continuing to strengthen policy guidance for the data center industry, and require gradually closing high -energy and backward backup storage data centers to promote low -carbon development in data centers.

"Gradually dispel the concerns of corporate data movement westward. In addition to the guiding role of policies such as land supply, electricity prices, and emission reduction indicators in the area of ​​the lack of resources in the eastern resources.五表示，针对“东数西算”工程目前面临的带宽、时延、算网融合、算力调度等技术难题，要进一步加强顶层设计，形成统一的标准体系，打造超长距离、大带宽、 Intelligent light transmission networks should also be based on the coordination of the calculation network, and build a national integrated computing power network through computing power scheduling to promote the effective allocation of computing power resources in my country.

Author: Wang Zheng

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