Beijing- Tianjin-Hebei Node will Lead the “East Data West Computing” Project |Idcnova-Media|the gateway to China data center market

A few days ago, with the start of construction of 8 national hub nodes of the computing power network and 10 national data center clusters, the "Eastern Data and Western Computing" project was officially launched in full swing. Among them, Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, as the national hub node of the national integrated computing power network, provides strong support for the development of the data center industry cluster in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region.

The "Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Data Center New Infrastructure Development" released by the Data Center Committee of the China Communications Industry Association shows: "The Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region is the largest IDC (Internet Data Center) market in China, accounting for above 1/3 of the total IDC market in China. ” In other words, Beijing- Tianjin-Hebei Node will Lead the “East Data West Computing” Project

CHEN Jiangping, senior vice president of GDS, said in a recent interview that for a long time, Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, as the center of China informatization industry and digital software companies, has a good industrial foundation and location advantages, and has the ability to serve as a hub of national integrated computing power network. supporting the conditions for national data processing, flow and application. At the same time, the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei cluster can well coordinate the resources of 8 national hub nodes of computing power networks and 10 national data center clusters, and achieve industrial coordination, which is of great significance to promoting the development of my country's digital economy.

Beijing Has Become a Hot city for Data Center Construction

With the advantages of rack scale, capital attractiveness, the number of green-level data centers, and the number of leading companies, data centers in Beijing have always occupied a leading position in the industry and have always been a hot city for data center construction. However, due to the shortage of land and power resources in Beijing, as well as strict requirements for environmental protection, the Beijing Municipal Government has strengthened the control of new data centers and requirements on it.

On the one hand, during the "13th Five-Year Plan" period, Beijing will focus on the construction of cloud computing infrastructure, big data and other related industries. In June 2020, under the trend of 5G construction in full swing, the Beijing Municipal Government seized the opportunity and issued the "Beijing Action Plan for Accelerating New Infrastructure Construction (2020-2022)", proposing to strengthen the green transformation of data centers and promote that the data center shall evolve from a "cloud + terminal" centralized architecture to a "cloud + edge + terminal" distributed architecture. On July 15, 2020, Beijing issued the Action Plan for Accelerating the Construction of New Infrastructure in Chaoyang District (2020-2022), which proposed to "actively promote the construction of artificial intelligence ultra-high-speed computing centers, promote the national industrial Internet big data center. fall to the ground, comprehensively deploy the "city brain" smart platform, build a unified government information resource base for the entire platform, and build a new infrastructure system. “

On the other hand, as a large energy consumer, data centers will consume a lot of power energy during operation, so there are certain requirements for PUE (energy efficiency), and Beijing area has also put forward more stringent construction and planning of data centers requirements. The "Chaoyang District Action Plan for Accelerating New Infrastructure Construction (2020-2022)" requires "accelerating the promotion of green, modular, and power-intensive transformation and upgrading of existing data centers, improving the service efficiency of new data centers in Chaoyang District, and reducing the comprehensive energy efficiency of data centers consumption”. Among them, "efficiency" and "energy consumption" are the key content.

Investors in data centers in Beijing are mainly telecom operators, Internet companies, scientific research institutions, and some institutions specializing in operating data centers. Among them, the operators' data centers mainly include Beijing Telecom Yizhuang Cloud Computing Data Center, Beijing Unicom Telegraph Building Data Center, Beijing Unicom Digital Beijing Building Data Center, and Beijing Unicom Muxiyuan Data Center. Taking Beijing Yizhuang cloud computing data center as an example, the data center adopts air-conditioning heat recovery, building automatic control system, natural cooling technology, cold storage technology, fresh air system, rainwater recovery system and other energy-saving and environmental protection measures. The overall design value of PUE is below 1.5, the application of these technologies reflects the concept of energy conservation and environmental protection, and is the core data communication hub of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei integrated urban agglomeration, serving the newly established Xiongan New Area in Hebei. At the same time, with the endorsement of China Telecom's "the most cloud-savvy network", the data center connects to cloud resources and does not act as a "lonely cloud", providing users with "the most network-savvy cloud".

The Rapid Development of Data Center Industry in Tianjin and Hebei

With the proposal of "carbon peaking and carbon neutrality" and the advancement of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei integration process, the distribution of data centers has experienced a development process from urban areas to suburbs, from Beijing overflowing to surrounding Beijing. IDC needs will be gradually undertaken by the surrounding areas. In recent years, such as Wuqing District of Tianjin, Langfang and Huailai of Hebei Province and areas are adjacent to Beijing, they have seized the opportunity of rapid development of the data center industry and vigorously developed data center construction. In terms of resources and capabilities, they have the conditions to undertake the needs of Beijing's spillover data center. .

The Geographical Location of Tianjin Determines that its Location Advantage is Incomparable. As a municipality directly under the Central Government, Tianjin is a national central city, a shipping center, a logistics center and a modern manufacturing base in northern China. These unique geographical advantages are of great help to Tianjin's development of high-tech, economic and trade.

Judging from the construction types of Tianjin data centers, most of them are data centers in the financial, Internet, and high-tech industries. For example, the largest data center in Tianjin is the Internet data center - the Zamp data center. Other data centers are XI Qing Big Data Center, China Telecom Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Big Data Intelligent Computing Center, China Unicom Tianjin National Data Center, Telstra PBS Tianjin Data Center, Tongniu Tianjin Free Trade Zone Data Center, Zhuolang Tianjin Data Center, Beijing Huanjing Big Data Industry Tianjin base etc.

For example, the Tongniu Cloud Data Center in the Tianjin Free Trade Zone is built to promote the high-quality development of industries in the Tianjin Airport Economic Zone, thereby promoting the rapid development of the digital economy. In addition, the location of Tongniu Cloud Data Center has a clear strategic significance. It is located in the airport area of Tianjin Free Trade Zone, 110 kilometers away from the center of Beijing, 20 kilometers away from the center of Tianjin, 30 kilometers away from Tianjin Binhai New Area, and 5 kilometers away from Tianjin Binhai International Airport.

Adequate land resources, air-cooling resources and the huge advantages of surrounding Beijing make Hebei Province a key area for data center selection in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region. Langfang City, Hebei Province and its subordinate Yanjiao Town are geographically close to the core area of Beijing, and have obvious advantages in terms of land and power supply. They are important bearing areas for Beijing's IDC overflow demand; Zhangbei County and Huailai County in Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province have superior natural conditions and abundant power resources. They are actively planning data center industrial parks, giving electricity price discounts to settled data center projects, attracting companies such as Alibaba and Chindata to settle down in the Data Center Industrial Park.

According to the content of the reply letter from the four national departments, the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei hub will plan to establish a Zhangjiakou data center cluster. The starting areas of Zhangjiakou data center clusters are Huailai County, Zhangbei County, and Xuanhua District of Zhangjiakou City, which will become hot spots for data center location selection. As of the first half of 2020, the planned data center natural cabinets in Hebei Province are mainly concentrated in Langfang City and Zhangjiakou City, and the planned natural cabinets account for more than 70%.

Take Alibaba's Xuanhua cloud computing data center as an example. The data center is divided into Jingzhangao project and Hezixi project, located in Jingzhangao Park of Xuanhua Economic Development Zone and Hezixi Township of Xuanhua District, respectively. In first-tier cities, few companies can afford the land cost of the huge land area, and the huge power consumption after completion will also put pressure on the company. The location of the data center in Xuanhua is not only in line with the national strategy of "East Data and West Computing", but also solves the problem of high construction costs.

Up to now, many companies have set up data centers in Hebei. The data centers in Langfang include China Mobile Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (Langfang) Data Center, China Unicom Zhiyun Langfang Cloud Data Center, Huawei Langfang Cloud Data Center, Hebei Artificial Intelligence Computing Center, etc.;The data centers in Baoding include China Mobile Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (Baoding) Data Center, Xushui Intelligent Cloud Computing Center, Jiaxu Fumei Data Center Block A, etc.; the data centers in Huailai include Huailai East Park Cloud Data Center and Huailai Guanting Lake New Media Data Center.

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