Guiyang: We all need to count from east to west
On February 8, the third session of the 15th People's Congress of Guiyang was opened to hear the work report of Guiyang Municipal People's Government in 2023. Guiyang, which is recognized as the "west computing" node in the industry, has gradually transformed from a "west computing" node city to a city capable of undertaking "east computing".
IDC circle reporters noticed that the report mentioned that Guiyang should build a nationwide computing support base. "Accelerate the construction of the national main hub center and computing power dispatching platform of the national integrated computing network, complete the 56P intelligent computing project, develop more than 50 major users of computing power in the east...... Start the construction of Southern Energy, NetEase, accelerate the construction of super large data centers such as Guodian Investment, continue to increase the investment attraction of financial institutions' data centers, and strive to reach 200000 standard racks and power on services It has exceeded 500000 sets, and promoted the transformation of the data center from a cost center to a benefit center. " This is the "small goal" set by Guiyang in 2023.
On February 1, at the inauguration ceremony of Netease Gui'an Data Center, Netease CEO Ding Lei publicly said that after the completion of Netease Gui'an Data Center (Phase 1.1) in September this year, Netease plans to migrate the most core business data and warm data closest to users to Gui'an for processing and computing, so that data can run from east to west and from west to east.
Not only that, I believe that users who often use Apple iCloud are also "quite impressed" by the development of Guiyang's big data industry. Since 2018, domestic iCloud has been taken over and operated by Cloud Guizhou, and the speed of domestic Apple end product users in using iCloud to upload/download/backup has been significantly improved.
As we all know, many "Western Computing" nodes/clusters, including Guiyang, Zhongwei, Qingyang, etc., play a major role in "Eastern Digital Western Computing": by virtue of relatively low "cost", they undertake the non real-time computing power demand (i.e., the calculation and storage of temperature and cold data) in the "Eastern" region.
Looking at the development of Guiyang and even the whole Guizhou big data industry, as mentioned in the work report of Guiyang Municipal People's Government in 2023 - "promote the transformation of data center from cost center to benefit center."
With the rapid development of the Internet, as a "tenant" of the data center, of course, he hopes that the data center deployed by his business will be as close to the user side as possible. However, as data centers in first tier cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen are almost saturated, and users' demand for computing power is growing, Internet enterprises are paying more and more attention to "cost performance" in the process of selecting data centers.
The "wonderful" development process of Guiyang's big data industry has provided valuable experience for other "western computing" or second and third tier cities that intend to develop big data industry.
First of all, Guiyang enjoys unique natural conditions. The local average annual temperature is about 15 ℃, with less ultraviolet radiation and good air quality, which is suitable for building data centers that need dust removal and cooling. At the same time, Guizhou is not in the main seismic zone, which also protects the data center from natural disasters.
Secondly, compared with places such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, Guizhou has obvious advantages in terms of land cost, labor cost and electricity cost, enabling the data center to provide users with lower "unit computing power" costs.
Thirdly, the biggest "disadvantage" of the "west computing" node compared with the "east computing" node is the "network". In terms of network construction, in recent years, Guiyang Economic Development Zone has accelerated the construction of communication network infrastructure, focusing on the construction of "three gigabit" networks of gigabit to home, gigabit WiFi, and 5G signals, to achieve the urban 1000M residential optical fiber to home, and 1000M optical fiber to business buildings and industrial parks.
At present, seven indicators, including Guiyang Gui'an urban home gigabit optical network coverage rate, 5G network access rate in key places, 5G base stations per 10000 people, the proportion of 500Mbps and above users, the proportion of 5G users, the proportion of 10G-PON and above ports, and "dual gigabit" application innovation, have reached the evaluation standard of "gigabit city", The overall indicators rank in the middle and upper reaches of the 110 shortlisted cities.
In June 2022, China Telecom started the construction of Guiyang Guangzhou optical cable transmission direct link circuit project. The total length of the optical cable is 1305 kilometers. It is directly connected to Shaoguan, Guangdong, via Guilin, Guangxi, from Guiyang, Guizhou. The total investment is expected to reach 99.99 million yuan (including about 45 million yuan for Guizhou section). It is planned to be accepted in the first quarter of 2023. After completion, the transmission delay from Guizhou National Computing Power Hub to Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area National Computing Power Hub will drop by about 30%.
Such "favorable weather, favorable location and harmonious people" enable Guiyang to "accumulate sand into a tower and accumulate water into an abyss" in the process of gradually moving from "calculating from the west" to "calculating from the east".
