CSG to Participate in China's Development of Key Computing Hubs, Data Center Clusters

A new batch of servers is to be operational in Southwest China's Guizhou Province by China Southern Power Grid (CSG), according to a company statement made on Feb 23, in response to China's plan to build 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.

CSG will participate in construction of the computing hubs in the Greater Bay Area and Guizhou and data center clusters in Shaoguan of South China's Guangdong Province and Gui'an of Guizhou.

In recent years, the company has kept building reliable power grids to serve development of the big data industry and promote new type infrastructure construction for the country's strategy of development of key computing hubs and data center clusters.

It has invested 2.25 billion yuan ($353 million) in construction of the power grid in Gui'an since 2015, multiplying power supply capacity by a factor of 17 within eight years.

The company also plans to build three new 220-kilovolt substations in Shaoguan of Guangdong to meet future power demands of data center clusters in the region.

So far, seven mega data centers have settled down in Gui'an New Area, which has nearly 3 million servers operating at high speed 24/7. Statistics from the Guizhou Electric Power Association show that in the past five years, power consumption of information transmission, computer service and software industries in the region has increased by 2.6 times, with an average annual growth rate of 21 percent. In Gui'an New Area, power consumption of the big data industry has accounted for more than 40 percent of the total regional power supply since the beginning of this year.

To meet demand for highly-reliable, green and efficient power in the big data industry, CSG built an energy internet operation and control platform based on technologies like the internet, big data and cloud computing. The platform can help connect multiple kinds of power sources such as solar, wind, water and fire with supply and distribution networks, realizing scientific arrangement and distribution of power.

By the end of 2021, non-fossil energy installed capacity and power volume accounted for 55 and 49 percent respectively of the company's totals, and the power generation utilization rate based on wind and photovoltaic reached 99.8 percent.

During the country's 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-25) period, CSG will step up efforts to build new-type economical, integrated, highly-efficient, green and energy-saving data infrastructure.

It plans to develop three medium- and large-scale super-computing capacity data centers and launch overseas data centers to support access of office information systems by its overseas agencies. Meanwhile, it will build an edge computing platform to provide reliable computing and storage capacity services for new-type power systems and construction of digital power grids.

(Executive editor: Niu Yilin)