Development and Reform Commission： 10 national data center clusters drive investment of over 190 billion.

　　Zhongxin Finance, April 15th At the press conference of the National Development and Reform Commission, Sun Wei, deputy director of the High-tech Department of the National Development and Reform Commission and a first-class inspector, introduced that since the beginning of this year, there have been 10 national data center clusters in China, which have driven all aspects to invest more than 190 billion yuan. Among them, the investment in the western region increased six times compared with the same period of last year, and the overall investment showed a good trend of shifting from east to west.

　　Sun Wei mentioned that in the early stage, the National Development and Reform Commission, together with four departments, had approved to start the construction of national computing hub nodes in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Yangtze River Delta, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, Chengdu-Chongqing, Inner Mongolia, Guizhou, Gansu and Ningxia, and planned to set up 10 national data center clusters.

　　Sun Wei said, according to statistics, since the beginning of this year, among the 10 national data center clusters in China, 25 new projects have been started, with a data center scale of 540,000 standard racks, and the computing power exceeds 135 billion floating-point operations per second, which is about 27 million personal computers, driving all aspects to invest more than 190 billion yuan.

　　Sun Wei believes that the Big Data Center, as the base of the digital economy, can not only effectively promote the investment in upstream and downstream industries such as information technology R&D and manufacturing, communication network and energy, but also promote the comprehensive digital transformation and upgrading of the economy and society, regional coordinated development, further smooth the circulation and application of data elements, and play an important and fundamental role in continuously strengthening and improving China’s digital economy. "Expected ‘ Fourteenth Five-Year Plan ’ During the period, the investment in big data centers will grow at a rate of more than 20% per year, and the accumulated investment in all aspects will exceed 3 trillion yuan. "