中國概述了四個大型數據中心集群的願景

Recently Yahoo News on-line reported the following:

China outlines vision for four mega data center clusters

Tue, December 28, 2021, 7:47 PM

BEIJING (Reuters) - China has approved plans to build four mega clusters of data centers in the country's north and west with the aim of supporting the data needs of Beijing and major coastal centers, according to the country's top state planner on Wednesday.

The clusters will be built in the northern Inner Mongolia region, northwestern Ningxia region, Gansu province and southwestern Guizhou province, the National Development and Reform Commission said in four separate statements.

The four locations can use their energy and environmental advantages to set up green and low-carbon mega data centers, the state planner said.

The move comes as energy-hungry data centers located in China's east have found it difficult to expand due to limits imposed by local governments on electricity consumption.

Some cities in China's northern and western regions rich in renewable energy resources such as wind and solar power have already built data centers to serve the economically developed coast.

But their distant locations have meant the centers have struggled to provide the near-instantaneous retrieval demanded by coastal clients with little tolerance for delays.

It is unclear how China would turn western and northern regions such as Ningxia and Gansu, which are 1,000 km (600 miles) from the coast, into actively operating centres of computing power given the data latency caused by the huge distances to data users in the east.

A marine economy development plan published on Dec. 14 encouraged major coastal cities such as Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Zhuhai to relocate high energy-consuming data centers to underwater locations to cut energy used for cooling.

China aims to expand its big data industry into a more than 3 trillion-yuan ($470 billion) sector by 2025 through the building of several clusters of data centers, according to a 2021-2025 plan by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology released in November.

 (Reporting by Liangping Gao, Albee Zhang and Ryan Woo; Editing by Richard Pullin)

Translation

北京（路透社）- 中國國家最高規劃人員周三表示，中國已批准在該國北部和西部建設四個大型數據中心集群的計劃，旨在支持北京和主要沿海中心的數據需求。

國家發展和改革委員會在四份單獨的聲明中說，這些集群將在內蒙古北部地區、寧夏西北部地區、甘肅省和貴州省西南部建設。

國家規劃師說，這四個地點可以利用其能源和環境優勢建立綠色低碳的大型數據中心。

此舉是因為位於中國東部的, 需要大量耗能的數據中心發現, 由於當地政府對電力消耗施所加的限製而難以擴展。

中國北部和西部地區一些擁有豐富風能、太陽能等可再生能源資源的城市已經建設了數據中心，去支援經濟發達的沿海地區。

但它們的遙遠位置意味著這些中心, 一直掙扎地去滿足沿海客戶幾乎不能容忍延遲, 及近乎即時的檢索要求。

鑑於與東部數據用戶之間有因超遠距離造成的數據延遲，目前尚不清楚中國將如何將距海岸 1,000 公里（600 英里）的寧夏和甘肅等西部和北部地區轉變為活躍的計算能力中心。。

在12 月 14 日發布的海洋經濟發展規劃, 鼓勵廣州、深圳和珠海等沿海主要城市將高能耗數據中心搬遷至水下位置，以減少用於冷卻的能源。

根據工業和信息化部 11 月發布的 2021-2025 年計劃，中國的目標是到 2025 年通過建設多個數據中心集群, 將其大數據產業擴展成一個到超過 3 萬億元人民幣（4,700 億美元）的行業.

So, China will in four remote locations use their energy and environmental advantages to set up green and low-carbon mega data centers. China is making an effort to improve green energy production.