China Unicom Supports Development of China's Key Computing Hubs, Data Center Clusters

China United Network Communications Group Co., Ltd. (China Unicom) is to play a crucial role in building the national integrated big-data center system by presiding over construction of key computing hubs and data center clusters.

The projects include building eight national computing hubs in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, the Yangtze River Delta region, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, the Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle, North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Southwest China's Guizhou Province, Northwest China's Gansu Province and the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region as well as construction plans for 10 national data center clusters.

The projects are expected to bridge computing resources between eastern and western areas.

In response to the country's speeding up construction of a smart digital information infrastructure that is high-speed and ubiquitous, air-ground integrated, cloud-network converged, intelligent and agile, green and low-carbon, and secure and controllable, China Unicom developed plans focused on developing a new-type of data center that deepens convergence of cloud and network technologies, uses a low-latency computing network and forms a multi-layer green and smart computing facility system integrated with digital, network and cloud technologies.

China Unicom to date has more than 880 data centers equipped with over 1 million servers in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, the Yangtze River Delta region, the Pearl River Delta region, East China's Shandong Province, Central China's Henan Province and Inner Mongolia, Northwest China's Shaanxi province, and Southwest China's Guizhou and Sichuan provinces and Chongqing Municipality.

Next, the company will concentrate on construction of new green and low-carbon data centers with high computing power and high security centered on the eight national hubs in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, the Yangtze River Delta region, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and the Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle for deployment of large-scale computing power.

Relying on local energy, climate and other natural resource advantages, the company will push forward construction of four national computing hubs in Inner Mongolia, Guizhou, Gansu and Ningxia, improve computing power service quality and utilization efficiency and create non-real-time computing power supporting bases, while flexibly developing edge data centers.

In consideration of China's goal of peaking carbon dioxide emission by 2030 and reaching carbon neutrality by 2060, China Unicom will also promote energy saving and carbon reduction of data centers by adopting new technologies and improving management efficacy.

(Executive editor: Niu Yilin)