1. The Plan for the High-quality Development of Computing Infrastructure
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Central Internet Information Office, the Ministry of Education, the National Health Commission, the People's Bank of China, the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council recently jointly issued the 'Plan for the High-quality Development of Computing Infrastructure' , which puts forward that, in terms of computing power, the scale of computing power will exceed 300 EFLOPS by 2025, the proportion of intelligent computing power will reach 35%, and the balanced and coordinated development of computing power in the east and
west will be achieved.
In terms of storage power, the amount of storage exceeds 1,800 EB, the proportion of advanced storage capacity reaches more than 30%, and the coverage of important data disaster recovery in key industries reaches 100%.
In terms of the application of computing power, a number of new businesses, modes and forms of computing power will be created; the penetration rate of computing power in industry, finance and other fields will rise significantly. The application in medical care, transportation and other fields will be replicated and promoted on a large scale. More than 30 benchmarks will be created in each key area.
2.The Project of Huawei Cloud and Helinger Data Center Project Begins
On October 8, the Project of Huawei Cloud Helinger Data Center started. The project is located in the Cloud Valley area of Helinger New District, Inner Mongolia.
The project is planned and laid out in accordance with the 'three centers in the same city' approach, and is divided into 3 parts--the western, southern and northern parts of the valley, covering a total area of about 5,963 acres, with a total of 50 data centers, 6 220KV substations, as well as industrial premises like laboratory, as well as supporting facilities like canteens, dormitories, etc, .
When the project is fully completed, the server will be able to hold more than 1 million units, and it will become the largest cloud data center in Huawei's northern region, helping to build a national benchmark for integrated big data center cluster hubs.
3. Lenovo announced that has reached three cooperation with China Mobile and will build a 'computing net'
On the afternoon of October 11, Lenovo announced that it had reached in-depth cooperation with China Mobile in three major areas. That is, facing customers of government and enterprise to consolidate the hybrid computing power base, using 5G and AI to empower the integration of digitization and reality, and to accelerate scientific and technological innovation. In the future, the two companies will also promote the integration of computing network and the construction of a "computing net".
4. Ofidc's non-deductible net income of the third quarter increased, as 43% data centers continue to be delivered
Ofidc announced report of three quarters on October 20, 2023. The company's income of first three quarters reached 1.039 billion yuan, an increase of 25.70% year-on-year; and reached the net profit of 123 million yuan, an increase of 10.37% year-on-year. The company’s basic earnings per share is 0.14 yuan.
Among them, the third-quarter income reached 372 million yuan, an increase of 33.67% year-on-year; and its net profit reached 49.195 million yuan, an increase of 34.92% year-on-year; its deducted net profit achieved 47.7738 million yuan, an increase of 43.02% year-on-year. Ofidc's Langfang Gu'an data center, Guangzhou Nansha Dagang data center and other projects have been delivered to bring incremental revenue gradually released.
5. Range Techbology Development Co.,Ltd.:non-deductible net profit increased 44.63%
In the third quarter of 2023, the company realized operating revenue of 998 million yuan in a single quarter, increased 39.12% year-on-year, 14.18% month-on-month. And it realized non-deductible net profit of 419 million yuan in a single quarter, saw year-on-year rises of 44.63% and month-on-month rises of 11.47% .
Recently the company delivered four new data centers, and now 12 data centers were completely delivered, compared with the end of last year, the number of data centers increased by 50%.
6. Germany and France are going to build EU's first exascale supercomputer
Eviden, a subsidiary of the French cloud computing company Atos, and ParTec, a German modular supercomputer company, announced on October 5 an impressive partnership to build Europe's first powerful supercomputer. Code-named "JUPITER," the project represents a major milestone for the European High Performance Computing Joint Project (EuroHPCJU), which has a total cost of 500 million euros.
The computer itself will cost €273 million and feature the Arm architecture SiPearl Rhea processor and NVIDIA acceleration technology. It is intended that the system will be operated by the Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC), whose supercomputers JUWELS and JURECA currently rank among the most powerful in the world.
7. Norway welcomes a new $50 billion data center
Recently, Green Mountain announced the launch of a new data center in Kalberg. It is known that the site is 20 kilometers from Norway's fourth largest city Stavanger (Stavanger). The first phase of construction of the new data center is expected to be completed by January 2025, and in 2027 will be fully completed. There will be eight data halls in the facility.
Green Mountain will cooperate with a "grand international customer", who invested this project at least 50 billion NOK (about 33.7 billion yuan, they both bear the cost of the total investment of 50%.
8. Airtrunk : A$500 million investment in Japan's first Osaka data center to fuel IPO plans
Airtrunk, an Australian data center operator, recently announced that it will launch its third facility OSK1 in Japan, in order to fuel the company's upcoming initial public offering (IPO). Airtrunk will invest A$500 million in OSK1, its first facility in Osaka. The capacity of the site are able to expand to 20MW, and the capacity of Airturnk in Japan could reach 430MW.
