Chayora has built the first of nine data centre facilities on its 300MW 80-acre hyperscale data centre campus in Beichen, northern Tianjin, as part of a $2bn data centre building strategy in China.
The Hong Kong-based company has completed all primary infrastructure, support facilities and a first data hall for customer use at the TJ1 facility. It will eventually accommodate 3,000 to 3,600 racks at a 10kW average IT load per rack across six data halls.
“To enable rapid progression and to meet significant wider Beijing regional demand”, said Chayora, “we are immediately preparing two further facilities on the same campus with up to a total 60MW IT load”. Building on these will commence in Q2 2019.
The site now offers the ability to run high-speed (up to 1Tbps) point-to-point dedicated connectivity from each data centre to any location in the Beijing/Hebei /Tianjin tri-province area. This “achieves optimal latency and unlimited bandwidth” for customers needing to network between existing points-of-presence, the firm said.
A direct <2ms connection to the Beijing IX in Jiuxianqiao will also be available, enabling access to multiple nationwide and international cloud on-ramps. This is combined with “low industrial power tariffs and campus-specific customer tax benefits”, the firm added.
Tianjin province announced in May 2018 the establishment of a $16bn fund to spur the development of artificial intelligence in the region, which corresponded with the central government launching a series of AI initiatives. Chayora said its facilities would be geared to support these efforts. Last year, China’s State Council called for the nation to become “the world’s primary AI innovation centre by 2030”.
China’s regional data centres in the central, western and north-eastern parts of the country are only working to 50% of their capacity after being spurned. Customers still favour data facilities in the developed markets on the eastern coast, including Beijing and Shanghai, where Chayora focuses on.
