"Eastern data and western computing", in which "number" refers to data, and "calculation" refers to computing power. To put it simply, the computing power demand in the eastern region is calculated by the western region. The "Eastern Data and Western Computing" project is another major strategic deployment in China in the digital era, aiming to solve the problem of imbalance between the computing power demand in the eastern region and the computing power resources in the western region by building a national integrated computing power network.
As a matter of fact, this project is "identical" to major projects such as the South-to-North Water Diversion Project, the West-to-East Power Transmission Project, and the West-to-East Gas Transmission Project, which reflects China's macroeconomic regulation and control capabilities and long-term planning vision in resource allocation. Of course, this kind of big project may only be carried out by a country like ours.
According to the people, by the end of 2025, China will initially build a comprehensive computing infrastructure system, and the new computing power in the national hub node area will account for more than 60% of the new computing power in the country, and the utilization rate of computing resources will be significantly higher than the national average. In addition, it will also realize different levels of latency computing power networks, and initially form a two-way coordination mechanism for computing power and electricity, promote the green development of data centers, and improve the convenience and cost-effectiveness of users using computing power.
It is reported that China will start from the "five overall planning", emphasize the strategic layout of "integration of general computing power, intelligent computing power and super computing power", realize the integration and coordination of computing power in the east and west, and the integrated development of computing power and "data, algorithms, green power and security guarantees", so as to promote the construction of a national integrated computing power network with network scheduling, inclusive and easy to use, and green security.
At present, most of China's data centers are distributed in the eastern region, but due to the increasing shortage of land, energy and other resources, it has become more and more difficult to develop data centers on a large scale in the eastern region. The western region has abundant renewable energy resources, such as photovoltaic and wind power, which are surplus in the western region but consume too much in the process of transporting them to the eastern region. Therefore, the construction of data centers in the central and western regions can make full use of these cheap energy supplies and reduce the operating costs of data centers.
By building a new computing network system that integrates data centers, cloud computing, and big data, we can guide the computing power demand in the eastern region to transfer to the western region in an orderly manner, optimize the construction layout of data centers, and promote the collaborative linkage between the east and the west. This will not only ease the pressure on the resources of the eastern region, but also make full use of the abundant resources and huge potential of the western region.
At present, China has become the world's most important data generator, but the stock of China's large-scale data centers accounts for only 9% of the world's total, which shows that China still has a lot of room for development in data center construction and computing resources. Therefore, the implementation of the "Eastern Data and Western Computing" project will bring huge development opportunities to the IDC (Internet Data Center) industry.
According to the plan, by the end of the 14th Five-Year Plan, that is, by 2025, the proportion of total data centers in the eastern region will drop from 60% to about 50%, while the proportion of the western region will increase from 10% to about 25%. This will further optimize the regional layout of China's data centers and realize the effective allocation and utilization of resources.
In the process of implementing the "Eastern Data and Western Computing" project, due to the high energy consumption, large demand for electricity and water resources, and the occupation of more land resources, the needs of the eastern region that do not need rapid response, such as background processing, offline analysis, storage and backup, etc., can be placed in the western region with sufficient land and energy for computing and processingThe data centers in the east mainly retain those needs that must be responded to quickly, such as industrial Internet, financial transactions, disaster warning, etc.
In general, this partitioning method can not only meet the response speed requirements of different needs, but also effectively use resources to maximize the utilization of computing resources. This is the basic idea of "counting from the east to the west".
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The Eastern Data and Western Computing Project was officially launched