2022 is the first year of “Eastern Data Western Computing“ project, and the 8 hub nodes are highlighted by different industries. In this article, KZ Consulting pointed out the advantages of the Chengdu-Chongqing hub as the following:
Advantage 1: the Chengdu-Chongqing hub is the only hub located in West
The Chengdu-Chongqing hub is the only hub node located in the west, but it is considered to be "Eastern Data"s hub nodes. Therefore it is also the only hub node that has the function to connect the east and west. With the advantages, the construction of the Chengdu-Chongqing hub will promote the rapid development of the IDC business market.
Advantage 2: abundant resources
The Chengdu-Chongqing area has abundant resources such as land, energy, and communication, which can effectively reduce the cost of computing power;
The data centers are large consumers of electricity, and the western region is rich in renewable energy, which has the potential to develop data centers and meet computing power needs in the east. Sichuan is a province of clean energy. At present, major hydropower projects such as Wudongde and Baihetan have been completed to generate electricity. The installed capacity and power generation of clean energy account for 85.3% and 86.6% respectively, and the total installed hydropower capacity is 89.47 million kilowatts. In the future, Sichuan will also speed up the development of water, wind, gas, hydrogen and multi-energy complementary integration, and promote the construction of the "Three Rivers" hydropower base, the Liangshan prefecture wind power generation base, and the "three states and one city" photovoltaic power generation base.
Advantage 3: digital industry is mature
The relatively complete digital industry in the Chengdu-Chongqing area will provide necessary support for the construction of data centers;
In terms of the foundation of the digital economy, the digital economy in Sichuan Province has grown rapidly in recent years. In 2021, the added value of the core industries of the digital economy in Sichuan Province will reach 401.2 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of about 18%; In terms of digital infrastructure, Sichuan has built over 66,000 5G base stations; Chengdu, Mianyang, Luzhou and Meishan were selected as the first batch of "gigabit cities" in China; The number of active IPv6 users exceeds 70 million, accounting for about one-eighth of the country; The Chengdu Supercomputing Center (Phase I) was completed and put into operation, with a total investment of over 100 billion yuan in the data center under construction.
In terms of Chongqing, by the end of 2021, a total of 49,000 5G base stations have been built and opened in Chongqing, the added value of the digital industry has reached 182.4 billion yuan, more than 7,000 big data intelligent enterprises have been gathered, 2,780 intelligent transformation projects have been implemented, and 67 intelligent factories have been built. , 359 digital workshops, more than 71,000 "cloud" enterprises, and the digital economy has been applied in many fields such as urban construction, government affairs, education, and medical care.
In the future, relying on the construction of the Chengdu-Chongqing hub, the digital economy in the Chengdu-Chongqing region will be further revitalized. The construction of the Chengdu-Chongqing hub is conducive to the further improvement of new infrastructure such as 5G base stations, gigabit optical fiber "dual gigabit" networks, and green and low-carbon data centers in the region; Upstream, midstream and downstream enterprises in the digital economy industry chain will accelerate their deployment, involving IDC service providers, precision temperature control, cloud computing, data processing, storage backup, etc., as well as advantageous and characteristic application fields such as smart medical care, smart air traffic control, and inclusive finance; In addition, the digital transformation of industries such as electronic information, biomedicine, automobile manufacturing, and high-end equipment manufacturing will also be accelerated, and the digital economy and the real economy will be deeply integrated.
Advantage 4: Concentrated Population
The population in the Chengdu-Chongqing area is relatively concentrated, which can better improve the reuse rate of the Chengdu-Chongqing hub.
In November last year, the Sichuan and Chongqing communication administrations jointly announced the key points of the information and communication industry in the Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle in 2022, and proposed to build a "gigabit city cluster" with Chengdu and Chongqing as the core, and achieve more than Sichuan and Chongqing cities. Full coverage of gigabit broadband; promote the optimization of data center network direct connection and inter-regional network links, and strengthen the support of "Eastern Data and Western Computing".
To sum up, the advantages of the Chengdu-Chongqing hub are obvious. Chengdu-Chongqing is an important hub area for the "Eastern Data and Western Computing" in the future, and will become an important computing power node in the west.
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