Qinghai Promotes Green Computing Industry in Beijing

The 3rd Qinghai Green Computing Industry Development Promotion Conference was held in Beijing on the 27th. According to China News Service, Qinghai is a cost depression for computing energy consumption, and clean energy has long become the most distinctive development feature and unique core competitiveness of Qinghai, spanning from the source of the Three Rivers to the Hehuang Valley, and from the desert and Gobi wind-solar bases to modern industrial parks.

As Qinghai’s first large-scale overseas promotion activity in the first year of the 15th Five-Year Plan period, the conference themed “Seizing New Opportunities for Computing-Electricity Coordination, Building a New Benchmark for West-East Computing” gathered industry platforms such as the Photosynthetic Organization and the Solar Thermal Alliance, as well as enterprise representatives from the entire computing industry chain including silicon crystal manufacturing, chip design, computing infrastructure, AI applications, intelligent driving and data services. 

Participants interpreted industry policies, shared practical achievements and accurately connected cooperation projects around computing-electricity coordinated development, providing guidance for the development of Qinghai’s green computing industry.

This year’s Government Work Report clearly proposes “implementing new infrastructure projects such as ultra-large-scale intelligent computing clusters and computing-electricity coordination”, which provides a major historical opportunity for Qinghai to seize the new digital economy track, empower industrial transformation and upgrading, and serve the national computing power guarantee pattern. 

As China’s first pilot province for computing-electricity coordination, Qinghai boasts unique natural endowments of “abundant water, rich light, good wind and vast land” as well as cool and dry climate advantages. During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, Qinghai actively integrated into the national integrated computing network, promoted the coordinated evolution of new energy and new power systems, accelerated the layout of the green computing industry, and the comprehensive development of green computing-electricity coordination took off.

Data shows that up to now, Qinghai’s total installed power capacity has exceeded 84 million kilowatts. Among them, the installed capacity of clean energy accounts for over 93%, and the installed capacity of new energy accounts for over 73%, further consolidating the “dual main body” status of new energy installed capacity and power generation. 

A total of more than 40,000 standard server racks have been built, with an operational computing power of 22,009 PFLOPS (calculated by FP16 dense), a year-on-year increase of 161%. The comprehensive PUE value of computing centers is 1.18, leading the country.

In the practice of computing-electricity coordination, Qinghai has built China’s first provincial-level clean energy and green computing dispatching center, and constructed a provincial-level computing-electricity coordination monitoring and dispatching platform. 

It has integrated the operation data of 573 new energy power stations, fully connected the computing power and power consumption data of 5 major data centers in the province, realized real-time monitoring of 18,000 servers and 17,000 PFLOPS peak computing power, and formed an intelligent operation system of “unmanned on duty and few people on duty”. 

In 2025, the green power consumption of Qinghai’s computing centers increased by 42.84% year-on-year, carbon emissions reduction rose by 33.73% year-on-year, and the unit power consumption cost decreased by 2.3% year-on-year.