China's first green power direct supply project, featuring coordinated computing capacity and electricity supply, came into operation on Saturday.
The photovoltaic power station with a total installed capacity of 500,000 kilowatts was put into operation to serve the computing power park under the cloud data center of China Datang Corporation Limited in Zhongwei City, northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region.
China's government work report this year unveiled plans to launch new infrastructure projects based on hyper-scale intelligent computing clusters and to coordinate the development of computing capacity and electricity supply.
With abundant solar and wind energy resources, Ningxia's new energy power generation capacity accounts for 65 percent of its total installed electricity generation capacity.
In Zhongwei City, photovoltaic panels' power generation time averages over four hours per day, and the average annual utilization time of wind power exceeds 2,000 hours.
Geographically, Zhongwei is an optimal location for building large computing bases to transmit data to points across the country with low latency.
Employees said that the computing power park has drawn six of China's top 10 computing enterprises to build respective centers.
One enterprise said calculations during the trial operation showed that the park's mode could help it save about 100 million yuan (about 14.6 million U.S. dollars) in electricity costs each year.
Around 40 kilometers south of the photovoltaic power station, a wind power project with an installed capacity of 1.5 million kilowatts is expected to be operational by the end of the year.
The two projects will fully meet the electricity demand of the entire computing power park.
China launches first green power project integrating computing power, electricity supply in Ningxia
