China Telecom's Qingpu Yunhu Data Center settles in Liantang, providing important support for the construction of the "Yangtze River Delta Digital Trunk". China Telecom | Computing Power | Trunk
On August 18th, China Telecom's demonstration project for efficient scheduling of computing power, Qingpu Yunhu Data Center, officially started construction in the Liantang Industrial Park in Qingpu. The Qingpu Yunhu Data Center is a core node of the national "East West Calculation" strategy and the China Telecom National Computing Power Dispatch Center. After completion, it will help strengthen information sharing and exchange among cities in the Yangtze River Delta region, further reduce the cost of social computing power acquisition, facilitate data flow between government departments and enterprises, and become an important support for promoting the construction of the "Yangtze River Delta Digital Trunk".
It is reported that the total land area of Qingpu Yunhu Data Center is nearly 36 acres, with a total construction area of about 40000 square meters. It is expected to be delivered by the end of 2024. After completion, the overall level of cross regional computing power scheduling will be improved, providing a total of about 4000 cabinet capabilities. It will be directly connected to the western cross domain cluster and the Yangtze River Delta cluster at high speed, cross domain, and cross cloud, becoming the scheduling hub of "East Digital and West Computing".
Computational power refers to the ability to process data. The distribution of computing power in various regions of the country is not balanced. Faced with the explosive growth of data, it is necessary to balance national computing resources, improve scheduling capabilities, and avoid big data centers being "underfed" and small data centers being "insufficient". In 2022, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Central Cyberspace Administration, and other four departments jointly issued a notice agreeing to launch the construction of national computing hub nodes in the Beijing Tianjin Hebei, Yangtze River Delta, Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area, Chengdu Chongqing, Inner Mongolia, Guizhou, Gansu, Ningxia, and other places, and planned 10 national data center clusters.
The Yangtze River Delta is an important node of the national "East West Calculation" strategy, and Qingpu District is the starting area of the data center cluster in the Yangtze River Delta Ecological Green Integration Development Demonstration Zone. The Qingpu Yunhu Data Center, which has landed this time, relies on China Telecom Tianyi Cloud's self-developed technology in terms of computing power services, and can use cloud resource applications that carry the entire city, country, and industry with higher quality. In response to the demand for overflow computing power, China Telecom's self-developed "Xirang" computing power distribution network platform can be used for intra regional or cross regional computing power scheduling.
At the groundbreaking ceremony, Shanghai Telecom stated that in response to the development requirements of Shanghai's "continuous improvement of computing network layout, abundant supply of computing resources, continuous optimization of computing power structure, steady improvement of computing efficiency level, and continuous enrichment of application scenarios," they are also planning and starting to build a large-scale model computing power center to further strengthen the digital foundation of the city.