China: What's ahead for West China's Guian New District?
Sep 17, 2021 | Posted by MadalineDunn
Guian New District's Big Data Development Service Center, has announced that China's Guian New District has 15 large and super-large data centers either underway or planned for future construction.
By 2025, the project is expected to exceed 100 billion Yuan; however, in just the first quarter of 2021, the software and IT service industry in the district accumulated 2.43 billion yuan, with a year-on-year growth of 114.71%
Wang Jun, director of Guian New District's big data development service center, commented: "Guian New District has become a strong magnetic field for the development of digital economy. At present, with Tencent Guian Seven Star Data Center as the center, 12 super-large data centers are planned within a radius of 4 kilometers and an area of no more than 50 square kilometers, which can carry more than 4 million servers."
He added: "The average PUE value of data centers is below 1.4, and the average energy consumption of data centers basically reaches the international advanced level."