China Telecom Corporation Limited (China Telecom) kicked off construction of an integrated data center in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area on Aug 1. It is one of the first projects to break ground in the Zhenjiang Industrial Park in Shaoguan, South China's Guangdong Province.
The data center is the only demonstration project of its kind at the national level. China Telecom highly values the nation's strategy of channeling more computing resources from the eastern areas to the less developed western regions and has been focusing on improving capacities in green data centers, DC high-speed internet, computing, cloud computing, artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud network security.
China Telecom's branch in Guangdong has kept increasing investment in technology and resource in Shaoguan. By 2025, China Telecom plans to invest 8 billion yuan ($1.18 billion) in Shaoguan data center clusters, building more than 50,000 2.5-kilowatt standard racks. The company is expected to make a long-term investment of 18 billion yuan.
China Telecom's Guangdong branch will make full use of new-type energy-saving technologies, management methods and intelligent capacities while considering local climate conditions and taking advantage of local green power. The green and low-carbon data center model in the Greater Bay Area will realize a low utilization rate of less than 1.25 of the project's energy and become part of a national network hub.
In addition, the company will also explore a higher-level of cloud-network convergence and gather its capacities in cloud, network and edge computing in the Greater Bay Area to provide users with safe services in internet, data, storage and application.
(Executive editor: Li Zhiyong)
