Recently, the National Development and Reform Commission and other departments jointly issued a notice that they agreed to start the construction of national computing power hubs in Beijing -Tianjin -Hebei, Yangtze River Delta, Guangdong -Hong Kong -Macao Greater Bay Area, Chengdu -Chongqing, Inner Mongolia, Guizhou, Gansu, and Ningxia, and planned 10 National data center cluster. At this point, the overall layout design of the National Integrated Big Data Center system has been officially launched.

What is "East and West Calculation"? Why implement the "East Digital West Calculation" project? How to advance? Reporter conducted an interview.

According to reports, "East Digital West Calcus" is a new type of computing power network system that builds data centers, cloud computing, and big data integration to guide the demand for east computing power to the west in an orderly manner, optimize the layout of the data center construction, and promote the cooperation of east and west parts. Link. To put it simply, it is to make the computing power resources in the West fully support the operation of Eastern data and better empower digital development.

"The" number "in the" East Digital and West Calculation "refers to data, and 'calculating' refers to the computing power, that is, the ability to process data." Said Sun Wei, deputy director of the Secretary for High Technology of the National Development and Reform Commission.

At present, computing power, as the core productivity of the digital economy, has become an important infrastructure for the development of the national economy. The size of my country's data center has reached 5 million standard racks, and the computing power has reached 130EFLOPS (13 billion floating -point operations per second). With the comprehensive and continuous penetration of digital technology to all fields of the economy and society, the whole society's demand for computing power is still very urgent, and it is expected that it will grow rapidly at a rate of more than 20%each year.

Sun Wei introduced that at present, most of my country's data centers are distributed in the eastern region. Due to the increasingly tense land, energy and other resources, it is difficult to sustain large -scale development data centers in the eastern part. In the western region of my country, there are abundant resources, especially renewable energy, and have the potential to develop data centers and undertake the needs of eastern computing power.

"Like the" South Water and North Diversion "'West Delivery East", we must give full play to the advantages of my country's institutional mechanism, integrate the layout from the national perspective, optimize the allocation of resource allocation, and improve the efficiency of resource use. "Sun Wei said.

It is understood that the national computing power hub node will be used as the backbone connection point of my country's computing power network. In the 8 computing hubs, 10 national data center clusters were further planned, namely Zhangjiakou cluster, Yangtze River Delta ecological green integrated development demonstration area cluster, Wuhu cluster, Shaoguan cluster, Tianfu cluster, Chongqing cluster, Gui'an cluster cluster , And Linkl Cluster, Qingyang Cluster, Middleweet Cluster.

The reporter learned from the National Development and Reform Commission that my country will accelerate the influence and agglomeration of 8 computing power hubs, and the traction will drive the integrated computing and coordinated development of national computing power. Strengthen network facilities Unicom; accelerate the direct connection of data between the East and West, and create a number of "East Digital West Calculation" demonstration lines; optimize the network structure of the communication network, improve the network node level of the national data center cluster, and improve the quality of network transmission.

At present, all localities are accelerating the layout of construction investment. For example, Ningxia has introduced new measures to promote the rapid development of the big data industry, which will support the big data industry from many aspects such as reducing electricity prices, funding support, tax reduction and exemption.

"We will take node construction as the starting point to build the" Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao-Guizhou-Chengdu-Chongqing "data corridor to serve the needs of computing power resources in eastern regions such as the Yangtze River Delta, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area." Jiao Delu, director of the office, said that the relevant work is currently in an orderly manner and the steps.

In addition, the national computing power hubs in Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Guangdong, Hong Kong, Macao, Chengdu -Chongqing, Inner Mongolia, etc. are also actively introducing large -scale data centers, and provided support for electricity prices and funds to accelerate the layout of new computing power infrastructure.

Experts said that the implementation of the "East Digital and West Calculation" project, promoting the reasonable layout of data centers, optimizing supply and demand, green intensive and interconnection, which is conducive to improving the overall computing power level of the country, the intensive development of the national computing power scale; it is conducive to promoting green Development and continuous optimization of data center energy use efficiency; conducive to expanding effective investment; conducive to promoting regional coordinated development, and promoting a new pattern for the development of western development.