Gansu’s Zijinyun Builds Green Computing Hub for National Data Strategy

Located in Jinchang Economic and Technological Development Zone, the Zijinyun Data Centre has developed into a core carrier for China’s national east-data west-computing initiative. As a key computing hub in Gansu province, the facility delivers uninterrupted digital services for government institutions, enterprises and organisations across the country with comprehensive intelligent management systems.

The data centre is constructed in three phases with a total investment of approximately 5 billion yuan. The first phase has been fully operational with 5,000 standard server racks and a total power capacity of 23,000 kilowatts. Equipped with ten intelligent monitoring systems covering data centre infrastructure, power environment and electric power supervision, the site achieves refined and all-round operational management to guarantee stable and efficient data operation.

Gansu serves as one of China’s eight national computing hub nodes under the east-data west-computing strategy, undertaking computing workloads from eastern regions and driving digital economic development across northwest China. Jinchang city functions as a vital supporting node for the Gansu computing hub, a provincial pilot for green computing and a core carrier of the Hexi Corridor computing cluster.

Capitalising on national artificial intelligence strategies and local industrial integration policies, Zijinyun has established a full-stack service system covering internet data centre services, independent research and development, information integration, intelligent computing, Beidou navigation applications and cloud services. It has built competitive computing infrastructure with comprehensive capabilities to serve the national computing market.

Leveraging abundant local wind and solar power resources, Zijinyun achieves 100% green power access, taking the lead in realising full clean energy operation in the domestic industry. Optimised full-link energy-saving technologies keep its power usage effectiveness at a leading domestic level, effectively cutting operational costs and forming unique competitive advantages in green and low-carbon computing.

The centre hosts multiple specialised platforms, including the Gansu branch of the national Beidou navigation data service centre, artificial intelligence computing centre, data disaster recovery centre and independent cloud computing centre. The diversified and integrated digital service system can accommodate multi-scenario and multi-industry computing demands, attracting steady business inflows from eastern regions.

Zijinyun focuses on digital transformation for the energy and power industry. Its professional research team conducts technological breakthroughs in power trading and AI intelligent inspection, cultivating a series of independently controllable technological achievements. It has delivered multiple key digital projects such as smart logistics platforms, fuel supply chain digital systems and intelligent monitoring solutions, forming a complete industrial system integrating project implementation, innovative research and operational services.

The facility underpins the construction of digital government and smart cities in Jinchang and drives regional digital economic growth. Subsequent phases of the project will move forward steadily. Upon full completion, the data centre will boast 50,000 server racks, emerging as a leading large-scale green computing base in northwest China and continuously supporting the implementation of national digital development strategies.