From April 29 to 30, the first Bay Area Digital Economy Industry Development Forum — and the 16th China IDC Industry Annual Ceremony of “Technology Defined Digital Infrastructure” (Shenzhen Station), the topic of “carbon neutrality” of data center was repeatedly mentioned and became the hottest topic of the conference. During this year’s NPC and CPPCC sessions, “carbon peak” and “carbon neutral” were written into the Government work Report for the first time. Under the big goal of achieving carbon peak by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060, how to promote carbon neutrality through industrial transformation and technological progress has become a new development topic for all walks of life.

From April 29th to 30th, the first Bay Area Digital Economy Industry Development Forum — and the 16th China IDC Industry Annual Ceremony (Shenzhen Station) of “Technology Defined Digital Infrastructure” was held in Shenzhen. At the meeting, experts, scholars and technical elites from all over the country conducted fruitful discussions on the future development of data center industry. Among them, the topic of “carbon neutrality” of data center has been repeatedly mentioned and become the hottest topic of the conference.

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Wonderful sharing with Chang low-carbon development

In his opening speech, Mr. Jin Heping, chairman of data Center Committee of China Communication Industry Association and chief information officer of China Three Gorges Corporation, said that the theme of today is green finance and green ecological development. China’s data center construction has just started, so green IDC should be built on the basis of green electricity, and green computing power should be provided through green IDC to transform green electricity output into green computing power output.

Liu Ke, a foreign academician of the Australian National Academy of Engineering and president of the Clean Energy Research Institute of southern University of Science and Technology, said in his speech titled “Exploring the Path of green Development of digital Economy” that China’s proposal of carbon peak and carbon neutral is very strategic. He argues that increasing energy efficiency alone will not solve the green problem. To finally solve the problem of green energy, we need to start from the energy technology itself, and apply the new technology to the upgrading of traditional industries. Therefore, the establishment of the whole innovation society, politics, production, learning, research is very important.

A number of experts from upstream and downstream data center enterprises also shared their efforts in the direction of carbon neutrality with participants through their own practices. Mr. Liao Bo, deputy general manager of Hengyang Ruida Power Co., LTD., said that renewable energy generation and other green energy will become data center traditional energy complementary or alternative. Mr. Zhou Ligong, technical director of Data center format of Rogelang, said that under the condition of new infrastructure, the development of data center is very rapid, but we have to move towards carbon neutral plan to orderly development. Chi Ping (Zhong Yangfan), chief heat dissipation architect of Ali Cloud Technology Co., LTD., said that green data center is the continuous innovation, is green, open and win-win, and ultimately brings energy saving and green value to the whole industry.

High-end round table on carbon neutral future

In addition to the wonderful sharing of experts, the conference also hosted a number of high-end round-table dialogues, two of which were closely related to carbon neutrality. The participants of the roundtable dialogue had sincere exchanges and in-depth discussions, and conducted all-round thinking collisions around carbon neutrality, which gave the audience endless inspiration.

At the Roundtable on the Path to Carbon Neutrality in the Digital Economy, Mr Shenzhen bureau of industry and energy beam of the census and statistics department, shenzhen bureau of industry and information technology, Mr Guang-wen zhao, shenzhen national high-tech industry innovation center for energy and materials, deputy director of the institute of Marine industry Li Linjun Sir, shenzhen gas group co., LTD. Information center general manager Mr Zhang jing, shenzhen city big wisdom, deputy general manager Mr Zou Song to data center co., LTD Mr. Li Shaobo, general manager of Huawei Data Center Intelligent Management System, and Mr. Sun Bin, CHIEF operating officer of Zhuma Intelligent, jointly held in-depth discussions on dual carbon strategy, industrial regulation, policy guidance and enterprise technological innovation.

Presided over by Guo Liang, deputy chief engineer of cloud Computing and Big Data Research Institute of China Academy of Information and Communication technology, Ali cloud technology co., LTD., chief cooling architecture ShiChi flat, data port technology management center in east China & south China regional director Zhu Ying Zeng Chao, big three gorges long telegram data, deputy general manager, tencent IDC double carbon project director Liang Jiaqi participation of “low carbon data center now and the future” topic, all the experts around low carbon data center construction and development of green energy, From the perspective of life cycle to data center, he will offer advice on design and construction, IT, water, power, operation and maintenance.

Green industry and finance support new infrastructure

Under the big issues of new infrastructure and carbon neutrality, the realization of low-carbon and green development of data center requires not only the continuous innovation of the technology end, but also the evolution of the industry as a whole, as well as the support of the industrial environment and financial environment. Green + industry and finance has become an enduring topic in recent years.

In terms of policies, the National Development and Reform Commission, China Securities Regulatory Commission and other institutions have issued policies on REITs and started the pilot work of infrastructure REITs. In this context, IDCC2021 held the establishment ceremony of “China New Infrastructure REITs Forum” on the site, and in the special seminar on green financial Ecology of data center on the same day, the executive body of “China New Infrastructure REITs Forum” “China New Infrastructure Industry and Finance Research Institute” was established to promote the research on infrastructure REITs. We will promote the integration of industry and finance.

IDCC2021 (Shenzhen station) is the first stop of the 16th China IDC Industry Annual ceremony. After that, it will continue to land in Shanghai, Wuhan, Chengdu, and Beijing and other hot areas of data center industry development, providing the most solid industrial platform for the green, low carbon, stable development and industry exchanges of data center industry around the country.