Digital and green integration is accelerating

PXle-4143 While enabling the green transformation of the economy and society, digitalization should also pay attention to the new energy access and energy-saving technology transformation of information infrastructure such as data centers and communication base stations, and improve the green level of the digital industry itself.

PXle-4143 The Action Plan for the High-quality Development of Computing Infrastructure clearly states that it is necessary to continue to carry out the construction of national green data centers, encourage enterprises to strengthen green design, accelerate the deployment of energy-efficient and low-carbon computing network storage equipment, and promote the coordination of hardware and software to save energy. Support the application of new technologies such as liquid cooling and energy storage, explore the use of ocean, cave and other geographical conditions to build natural cold source data centers, optimize the power utilization efficiency of computing facilities, water utilization efficiency, carbon utilization efficiency, and improve the carbon efficiency of computing power.

PXle-4143 “Data center is a high energy consumption industry, to speed up the establishment and continuous improvement of green operation and maintenance management system, speed up the existing data center energy saving potential and technological transformation, improve the efficiency of resource and energy utilization.” We will improve the standard evaluation system for green data centers and the regulatory system for energy resources, build a number of advanced examples of green data centers, and form a number of innovative green technology products and solutions.” Wei Qijia, director of the Industrial economy Research Office of the Economic Forecasting Department of the State Information Center, said.

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PXle-4143 The “Green Computing White Paper for Computing Applications” released by the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology mentioned that in the process of promoting the green and low-carbon development of computing power, the focus of the industry is still mainly on renewable energy production and green data center construction. The white paper said that in order to more comprehensively and systematically analyze the green computing power industry chain and achieve a greater degree of overall energy saving and emission reduction effect, it is necessary to pay attention to “end-to-end green computing power”.

The white paper points out that the efficiency of computing power utilization in business applications is low, and it has not been paid enough attention by the industry. End-to-end green computing power refers to covering all aspects from power production, computing power production to business applications. Through upstream and downstream cooperation, software and hardware collaboration, the computing power is more efficient and energy-saving to support the business and generate value. Compared with the concept of green data center, end-to-end green computing power realizes the expansion of process links, implementation methods and objectives.

PXle-4143 “The green computing we developed is based on the premise of using green data centers, and through the ability of Ant’s full set of high-quality software stacks, including the upgrade of computing platform system architecture, business software update, and the collaborative design of business applications and platform systems to improve the efficiency of computing power resource utilization.” Song Shun, senior technical expert of Ant Group, introduced that this set of “green computing” technology system focusing on resource efficiency has been widely used in Ant internal business scenarios. Through green computing, the resource utilization rate of Ant Group in 2022 has reached three times that of 2019, and during the “Double 11” period of the year, the technology was used to save 1.538 million KWH of electricity and reduce 947 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent.