China Telecom Corporation Limited (China Telecom) has officially commenced construction on its Hainan (Sanya) International Information Park. Once completed, it will become the largest computing cluster in Hainan Province.
Covering approximately 70 mu (about 4.7 hectares), the project stands as a pivotal component of the digital infrastructure designed to support the national strategy of developing the Hainan Free Trade Port. It aims to build an offshore data center and intelligent computing cluster that serves Hainan, connects to markets in Southeast Asia and around the world. The project will provide strategic support for scientific innovation, industrial upgrading, and cross-border data flows in the Free Trade Port, helping position Hainan as a hub for international communications services.
The park is envisioned as a new-generation intelligent computing center integrating large-scale data processing, storage, and security services. It will house an intelligent computing center, a general-purpose computing center, an international gateway node, and a Tianyi Cloud core node. The park will accommodate 6,075 medium- and high-density server racks, supporting around 6,000 intelligent computing servers and delivering approximately 800 PFlops of general computing power or 30,000 PFlops of AI computing power.
To promote green development, the park will use a centralized chilled water air-conditioning system and fully leverage natural cooling resources. It will incorporate industry-leading technologies such as liquid cooling and photovoltaic systems to support energy efficiency for AI computing. These measures will reduce the data center’s power usage effectiveness to below 1.3, making it a leading green and low-carbon data center in the Hainan Free Trade Port.
Once operational, the park will form a dual-core data center system together with the Hainan (Haikou) International Information Park, creating the largest computing cluster in the province.
In addition, the project will carry out cross-border data trading, processing, and computing capacity leasing, helping to build a globally competitive hub for cross-border data services and promoting the secure and orderly flow of data across borders in the Hainan Free Trade Port.
(Executive editor: Yuan Ting)
