China Mobile Constructs Core Data Center in Hong Kong

China Mobile International Limited (CMI) of China Mobile Limited (China Mobile) announced beginning of construction of the China Mobile Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Hong Kong Fo Tan Data Center on Dec 8.

The center will meet Tier III construction standards and cover 103,660 square meters, with a total capacity of 9,000 cabinets. It is scheduled to start service in 2025.

It will adopt green and low-carbon technologies, lowering the average power usage efficiency (PUE) to less than 1.3 and realizing a whole life cycle and AI green energy conservation.

Located in the Fo Tan Area, the center is expected to be the core data center of the Greater Bay Area, joining five other nearby China Mobile facilities.

By working with five international submarine cables and five backbone cross-border land cable systems in South China's Guangdong Province and Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), the core data center system will improve China Mobile's advantages in cross-border international transmission resources and local 5G and fiber optic networks.

The 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-2025) mentions high-quality construction of the Greater Bay Area, supporting construction of an international innovation and technology center in Hong Kong and accelerating construction of an integrated national big data center system.

Construction of the Fo Tan Data Center shows CMI's efforts to enhance digital infrastructure construction and support digital upgrading of the Greater Bay Area and development of Hong Kong.

In the development plan for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area the center is expected to help enhance Hong Kong's status as an international innovation and technology hub.

Based in Hong Kong, CMI has been focusing on new digital infrastructure and construction of network resources in accordance with Hong Kong's layout.

The Fo Tan Data Center will be the second data center to be built and operated by CMI in the region after opening of the China Mobile Global Network Center in 2014.

The center will provide massive convergence services integrating 5G communication, cloud and AI computing.

CMI will continue to develop its intelligent network and build a comprehensive three-dimensional communication network resource system based on information highways, points of presence and Internet data centers.

At present, CMI has built and operated data centers in Hong Kong and Singapore as well as London and Frankfurt, and has more than 70 land and sea cable resources worldwide with a total transmission bandwidth of more than 100T and more than 180 points of presence.

(Executive editor: Niu Yilin)