en.Wedoany.com Reported - On May 25, the city of Zhongwei in Ningxia announced that, driven by the "East Data, West Computing" project, the electricity load of its cloud computing industry has crossed the 300,000-kilowatt threshold, specifically reaching 313,500 kilowatts, doubling compared to the same period last year. This progress indicates that Zhongwei is accelerating its transformation from a "Desert City" to a "Computing Power Capital," with the computing power industry entering a new phase.
Inside the China Unicom Ningxia Zhongwei Cloud Data Center, hundreds of thousands of servers operate around the clock. Qi Jun, project manager of the center's Engineering Construction Department, explained that the park's business focus has shifted from primarily offering storage in the early days to placing equal emphasis on storage and intelligent computing. "Buildings 1 and 2 mainly house storage servers, while Buildings 3 and 4 are dedicated to artificial intelligence training. The current monthly electricity bill ranges from 10 million to 13 million yuan."
While ensuring stable power supply, promoting the consumption of green electricity has become an important part of improving efficiency and controlling costs for Zhongwei's computing power industry. The State Grid Zhongwei Power Supply Company adopts a method of "public grid access plus bilateral green electricity trading" to meet the green power needs of data centers. It has assisted the big data center in completing the grid connection of a 1,712-kilowatt integrated distributed photovoltaic project, which can generate 2.4 million kilowatt-hours of electricity annually and save over 1.9 million yuan in comprehensive electricity costs. Meanwhile, the 2-million-kilowatt new energy project at the Datang Zhongwei Cloud Base has also been connected to the grid, delivering stable clean power to the data center cluster.
As of the end of the first quarter of this year, the Zhongwei data center cluster has installed a total of 256,000 standard racks, with a computing power scale exceeding 231,300 P (petaflops, or one quadrillion floating-point operations per second). Among the top ten national computing power enterprises, six, including China Communications Construction Company and CEC Data, have established a presence in Zhongwei. As electricity load and computing power scale increase simultaneously, Zhongwei is focusing on building a national computing power support base, providing western support for the "East Data, West Computing" project.
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