Jinan Data Centre 1 was the Towngas Telecom group's first data centre in mainland China. TGT co-founded Towngas Chibo Data Service (Jinan) in 2009 to run it. The first phase holds about 3,000 racks.
The building is designed to TIA-942 Rated 3+, the Japanese FISC standard for financial systems and China's GB50174 Class A. Dedicated 10 kV feeds arrive by separate paths from two substations, backed by 10 kV diesel generators of 2,000 kW each in N+1 and 2N UPS. Chilled water cooling runs N+1 with hot and cold aisle containment. The facility is carrier-neutral, with China Telecom, China Mobile and China Unicom fibre on diverse underground routes.
Towngas Telecommunications Company Limited (TGT) is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Hong Kong and China Gas Company Limited. It was established in 2004 and has its head office at Tseung Kwan O Industrial Estate in Hong Kong, with a mainland head office in Qianhai, Shenzhen. TGT lays fiber optic cable through gas pipelines using its Glass-In-Gas technology and operates as a carrier-neutral provider of connectivity, cloud computing, AIoT and data center services.
In Hong Kong it runs Data Centre 1 in San Po Kong and Data Centre 2 in Tseung Kwan O, which began operations in 2014. On the mainland it operates data centers in Jinan, Dalian, Dongguan and Harbin. Its fixed network arm, Towngas Telecommunications Fixed Network Limited, was formed after TGT bought fixed network operator Eastar Technology.
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