Big data thrives in Guiyang city, Guian New Area

Grasping the opportunities brought by the ongoing Eastern Data and Western Computing project – China's ambitious plans to build a network of data center hubs to address information infrastructure imbalances between the east and west of the country – Guiyang city and Guian New Area have acted.

The massive project is establishing a new computing network system and pushing forward with the development of the national economy in digital times. Guiyang and Guian – located in Southwest China's Guizhou province – have responded, by increasingly attracting more data centers to Guian. They aim to have 4 million servers there by 2025.

Guizhou's average temperature in summer is 24 C, which can help data centers save energy, reduce consumption, reduce carbon emissions and cut operational and maintenance costs.

Currently, Guiyang and Guian have 11 ultra-large data centers between them and 23 data centers under operation or construction.

China Mobile's data center in Guian is one of the company's three trans-provincial data centers in the country and is also a national backup center for disaster recoveries. The first two stages of the center were complete and the third stage is currently being planned.

Huawei Cloud's Guian data center has a planned investment of 8 billion yuan ($1.19 billion) and is on a site covering 1,521 mu (101.4 hectares). When finished, it will be able to house 1 million servers.

The Guian supercomputing center – co-constructed by the Guizhou Provincial Department of Science and Technology, the Big Data Development Administration of Guizhou Province and the Guian New Area – has an average usage rate for its equipment of more than 80 percent and its computational power ranks third in West China.

In the year to date, powered by its Guian data center, Huawei Cloud's business revenue has topped 10 billion yuan – making it the first big data company in Guizhou to reach that level.