With the full launch of the national "East Counting West Counting" project, computing power has become the core productive force of digital China and information society, which is directly related to the development speed of the digital economy. Communications World All Media specially planned to enter the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei node of the eight nodes of "East Number West Calculation", comprehensively display the development status of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei data center and computing power industry, and explore how Beijing-Tianjin Wing injects new momentum into high-quality economic development.
This article was first published in The World of Communications
Issue 6, March 25, 2022 Issue 892 in total
At present, human beings are at an important juncture when industrial civilization enters digital civilization, and computing power has increasingly become the core element of productivity, and has begun to fully integrate into production and life. In this context, the state proposes to vigorously develop computing power infrastructure, lay out the national hub node of the national integrated computing power network, start the implementation of the "East Number West Calculation" project, and build a national computing power network system.
In order to further understand the development status, planning and challenges of data center enterprises in Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei, the communication world all-media reporter interviewed Peng Jun, general manager of the data center division of Shanghai Dataport Co., Ltd.
Beijing IDC resources "in short supply"
It is urgent to create a new pattern of "1+2+4"
Due to the large amount of land required for the construction of data centers and the huge power resources consumed during operation, the development of data centers will always be limited. Peng Jun said: "As a national hub node of the national integrated computing power network, Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei is one of the major data center markets in the country, and since 2014, Beijing has been at the forefront of data center regulations. ”
However, with the announcement of China's "3060" commitment at the national level, Beijing has paid more attention to electricity efficiency (PUE) and efficiency improvements, the integration of small and old data centers, and green energy. Now, after a decade of development, it has become extremely difficult to obtain power and land permits for new data centers in the Beijing data center market, and the latest series of regulations may have a more obvious impact on the operating and capital expenditures of Beijing data center operators.
However, the demand for computing power in Beijing is still strong, and the data center is in a state of "short supply", Peng Jun believes that Zhangbei, Huailai and Langfang in the surrounding areas of Beijing are expected to undertake the strong demand for management, and can also provide sufficient land and renewable energy for the construction of super-large data centers.
In recent years, Wuqing District of Tianjin, Langfang of Hebei Province, Huailai and other adjacent Beijing areas are seizing the opportunity of rapid development of the data center industry, vigorously developing data center construction, and having the conditions to undertake the demand for Beijing spillover data center in terms of resources and capabilities, and gradually forming a pattern of integrated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei regional data center.
"The data center industry is the most distinctive and effective industry in the coordinated development of Beijing," Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei. Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei have their own characteristics and comparative advantages, among which Beijing strengthens innovation and guidance, Tianjin strengthens driving and support, and Hebei strengthens undertaking and transformation, forming a '1+2+4' coordinated development functional pattern of Beijing Zhongguancun + Tianjin Binhai New Area, Wuqing + Hebei Zhangjiakou, Langfang, Chengde and Qinhuangdao. Peng Jun said.
Referring to the advantages of the development of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei data center, Peng Jun replied: "Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei has long been a concentration of the mainland's information industry and digital software enterprises, with a good industrial foundation and location advantages, and has the conditions to support the national data processing, flow and application as a national hub of the national integrated computing power network. Among them, Zhangjiakou, as the country's six major wind power generation bases, has a unique resource advantage, according to statistics, Zhangjiakou Zhangbei County has an average wind speed of more than 6.2 m/ s in 10 years, and can be used for an average of 2400 hours per year. In addition, there are rich light resources, with about 3,000 hours of regional sunshine and an annual total solar radiation of about 1,600 kWh per square meter. As of this year, zhangjiakou's installed renewable energy capacity exceeded 23 million kilowatts, and the installed capacity of wind power ranked first in the country。 As a result, Zhangjiakou has a cool climate and unique wind and solar resources, which can afford the huge power consumption of data centers. ”
"Counting the East and Counting the West" is expected to be promoted
East and West are prosperous together
At present, computing power is closely related to the development of the digital economy, but while the digital economy is booming, it is also facing the risk of creating a digital divide. On the one hand, the comprehensive launch of "Eastern Counting and Western Calculation" can further consolidate the foundation for the development of the digital economy and create a driving force for national economic growth; on the other hand, through the effective docking of resources in the east and west, it can also effectively bridge the digital divide, promote balanced regional development, and contribute to accelerating common prosperity.
According to the China Internet Network Information Center, as of June 2021, the number of mobile phone users in China reached 1.007 billion. It is estimated that the number of Internet of Things devices connected in China will reach 7.4 billion in 2020, and it is expected to exceed 15 billion in 2025. Based on the data of the Internet and the Internet of Things, digital China is moving towards the era of all things perception, internet of all things, and intelligence of all things, and the basis of all this is that the country has corresponding strong computing power support.
In this regard, Peng Jun said: "'Counting the East and Counting the West' will provide direct impetus for the mainland's digital economy. According to the 2020 Global Computing Power Index Assessment Report, the average increase in the Computing Power Index is 3.3‰ and 1.8‰ for an average increase of 1 percentage point. Therefore, the launch of the 'Counting in the East and Counting the West' strategy is timely and necessary, and it is also the direct driving force for the development of China's future digital economy." ”
At the same time, "counting the east and counting the west" will also create new opportunities for deepening the reform of digital governance. As the core driving force for the development of the digital economy era, the distribution characteristics of computing power will also become an important factor affecting the consideration of local governance reform. With the formation of major computing power centers nationwide, a new pattern of coordinated development of the east, middle and west will be formed with the flow of data elements as the link.
In Peng Jun's view, the accelerated flow of data from east to west will also promote new public service reforms, and even in the future, local governments will carry out regional competition in providing efficient digital governance services to attract digital economy-related enterprises from all over the country to flow into the local area. Traditional government governance is limited by region, but in the digital age, with the "East Counting West Counting" project to promote further balance of computing power, the gap between the east and west regions in digital governance capabilities will be further narrowed in the future, and the differences in digital development processes across the country will also be reduced, and finally achieve national common progress and common prosperity.
Dataport revolves around 4 aspects
Advance layout "Counting East and Counting West"
For the data port, while continuing to enjoy policy and market dividends in the past two years, the company has already realized the advance layout of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Yangtze River Delta, the eastern hub of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and the corresponding core area in the west, especially in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei radiation circle.
"Dataport has begun to lay out Zhangbei as early as 2015, and in the following years it has continued to expand to Fangshan in Beijing, Huailai in Hebei, Langfang and other places. For Inner Mongolia, the company has begun to lay out as early as 2018. Peng Jun said.
According to the latest annual report of Dataport, during the reporting period, Dataport completed the acquisition of 100% of the equity of Jingyun Technology and its subsidiaries, and obtained about 50 acres of land use rights in the Emerging Industry Demonstration Zone of Anci District, Langfang City, Hebei Province, in preparation for the expansion of data center business in the area, the construction and investment of data center projects. When talking about the construction layout of future data centers, Peng Jun said that in the next three to five years, the main business development strategy of Dataport will continue to be carried out around the following four aspects.
First, accelerate the layout and construction of its own resource wholesale data center. Under the dual influence of policies and needs, the formation of data center industrial clusters in the coordinated development of core cities and surrounding areas has accelerated. On the one hand, the data port will continue to work intensively based on the current layout of the three major regions of East China, North China and South China, improve service quality, enhance profitability, and provide digital assistance for the coordinated development of the three major urban belts of the Yangtze River Delta, Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei and the Greater Bay Area. On this basis, Dataport actively explores open market mergers and acquisitions to achieve epitaxial development, continues to expand data center resources, rapidly expands business scale and taps potential customers. We pursue the deployment of resources with a reasonable scale growth that matches the market rhythm, based on long-term and steady development; internally balance sales, construction, capital, etc.; and combine external and regional economic development, data security, scientific and technological innovation, energy situation, data security, etc., overall consideration, and reasonable development.
The second is to expand business and match the escalating customer needs. After years of project verification, Dataport has become an integrated service provider with the main business of data center hosting and the ability to provide data center life cycle solutions. In the future, the company will continue to consolidate its main business and make every effort to expand data center server hosting services. With the continuous upgrading of customer needs, the company will also actively expand the hybrid cloud, private cloud and other services suitable for the different needs of customers, hoping to provide advanced big data, cloud services, and safe and reliable Internet new technologies for future diversified customer groups, helping enterprises to develop their own business quickly, elastically, securely, highly reliable and low-cost.
The third is to deepen cooperation and expand diversified customer groups. With its industry-leading technology research and development capabilities and international standard operation service system, Dataport continues to work with head cloud computing operators to create a win-win data center ecosystem, and at the same time, Dataport continues to deepen cooperation with governments and enterprises, operators, head Internet companies, financial enterprises, etc., and continues to improve service quality and meet the diversified needs of different types of customers.
The fourth is to improve energy efficiency and build a green and low-carbon data center. Since its establishment, Dataport has always adhered to green, low-carbon and sustainable development, improved energy efficiency, and continuously made breakthroughs and innovations in new energy, cooling technology, and life-cycle operation and maintenance management. The path of dataport to carbon neutrality can be divided into two steps: First, the use of various new energy-saving technologies to enhance the fineness of operation and maintenance management, improve energy efficiency, and bring the PUE value as close as possible to "1". Second, through the combination of various channels such as participating in green energy trading and carrying out distributed clean energy projects, the proportion of clean energy will be increased, and "carbon neutrality" will be achieved. At present, Dataport has accumulated a variety of new energy-saving technology experience, multi-pronged approach, to promote the green and clean use of data center energy, in preparation for the future realization of zero-carbon green data center goals.
Challenges remain
It is necessary to explore green energy-saving solutions in an all-round way
Under the official launch of the "East Counting West Calculation" project and the orderly promotion of the "double carbon" goal, the specific standards and operational requirements for energy conservation and emission reduction in data centers in various regions have become increasingly stringent, and data centers, as one of the high-energy-consuming industries, have greater challenges in improving energy efficiency and practicing green and low-carbon development.
"Dataport has always adhered to the optimization of energy structure, as early as 2016, it took the lead in adopting large-scale clean energy layout data center construction in Asia, and has accumulated rich practical experience in the field of 'carbon neutrality' in data centers in recent years," Peng Jun introduced, "from the combination of solar photovoltaic power plants and flexible HVDC transmission technology, to the 'free cooling' dry cooler to reduce waste heat and wastewater, breaking through geographical restrictions and greatly improving the cooling level of high-power cabinets. Then to the big data analysis management using machine learning technology, Dataport has made all-round active explorations in data center site selection planning, energy structure, low-carbon cooling technology, intelligent operation and maintenance management, etc., and has made remarkable achievements. ”
Peng Jun revealed that last year, in the data center of Zhangbei Zhongdu Grassland, where the dry cooler system was deployed, PUE and WUE have achieved very good results, and in the process of successive shelves, PUE has only reached 1.21, and WUE is only 0.1. The climatic conditions, water resources, municipal resources in the Zhongdu area and the western region have many similarities, water resources are scarce, the climate is relatively dry, this project provides a very good reference case for the "Eastern Numbers and West Counting" project.
"Counting from the East to the West" will not only help to open up the main artery of the digital industry in the east and west of the mainland, but also inject a steady stream of new momentum into the development of the mainland's digital economy, which requires the cooperation of all parties in the industrial chain. Under the background that the "East Counting West Counting" project is being laid out in an orderly manner, Peng Jun put forward the following suggestions.
First, it is recommended that the state accelerate the process of data center energy structure adjustment, optimize the proportion of new energy structure, and further promote the reform of data center energy structure;
The second is to strengthen the support policies of data center service providers, encourage local governments to build a data center industry ecosystem, and promote the process of data center industrialization and scale;
The third is to strengthen the planning guidance and overall coordination of major projects at the national level for the "Eastern Numbers and West Counting", do a good job in project planning at the regional level, match energy consumption, land and other resources, arrange supporting funds, actively optimize projects, and coordinate and supervise all relevant parties to accelerate the handling of investment projects and other review procedures;
The fourth is to reasonably guide the layout of data centers, coordinate the imbalance between supply and demand, and guide the construction of green data centers;
The fifth is to strengthen the construction of data center talents, organize relevant skills training, and increase the support of industrial parks to attract more talents.
In the future, the construction of data centers will surely lead to the vigorous development of the digital economy, and will also help the mainland to complete the goal of building a network power, digital China and a smart society. It is believed that Dataport will play an important role in the development of the digital economy in the future by virtue of its excellent strategic foresight in the field of data centers, the industry's leading level of green and low-carbon technology and stable operation capabilities, coupled with the advantages of "state-controlled", and actively promote the better landing of the "East, West And Counting" project. At present, human beings are at an important juncture when industrial civilization enters digital civilization, and computing power has increasingly become the core element of productivity, and has begun to fully integrate into production and life. In this context, the state proposes to vigorously develop computing power infrastructure, lay out the national hub node of the national integrated computing power network, start the implementation of the "East Number West Calculation" project, and build a national computing power network system.
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Author: Sun Tian Mei Yaxin
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Review: Shen Qing
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