- China’s Cloud Rescue Plan aims to sell useless CPU electricity from useless government data centers
- Despite the mass investment, many Chinese data centers only run on 20 to 30 % capacity
- The cost of old CPUs also costs money even
China is changing its view to handle additional data center by proposing a nationwide system to re -distribute additional computing power.
After the three -year rise in infrastructure development, many local government -backed data centers now face less use and high operating costs.
Since data centers grow older and less new users need their services, the Chinese government aims to restore the sector through an integrated national cloud service that will unite computing resources in territories.
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The proposal, driven by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), involves creating a network that can pollute and sell the power of CPUs more than used data centers.
“Everything will be handed over to our clouds to carry out the united organization, orchestration, and schedule capabilities, according to Chen Yali of the China Academy of Information and Communication Technology.”
It aims to provide standard bilateral links to public computing power across the country by 2028.
The gluten came out of the “Eastern data, Western Computing” move, which encouraged the construction of data centers in low -populous, energy -rich western areas to serve more developed Eastern economic areas.
But many centers, despite the fastest CPU residence, now sit useless, and this is a serious concern because the data center is a special age of hardware.
Also, it is expensive to get the CPU and their related ingredients, and the infrastructure can quickly be older by making unused infrastructure a financial responsibility.
Data centers are expensive to run, and the cooling system, electricity, and maintenance uses large resources.
So when high -performance workstations CPU is used less, they still have the current costs, which is very bad for business.
The rate of use allegedly revolves between 20 and 30 Between, which damages both economic and energy efficiency.
In the last 18 months, more than 100 projects have been canceled, which is exactly the opposite of only 11 in 2023.
Despite the failures, state investment is sufficient. In just 2024, official purchases reached 24.7 billion yuan ($ 3.4 billion), and in 2025 a further 12.4 billion yuan has been allocated.
The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) has taken steps to impose strict control.
New projects must secure the doorstep and purchase contracts for specific use before approval.
Also, local governments have now been prevented from launching a small -scale computing infrastructure without any clear economic justification.
On the technical front, adding to the CPU’s national cloud from various manufacturers, including Navalia and Huawei climbing chips, is a serious obstacle.
Differences in hardware and software architecture make it difficult to standardize, and the government’s real goal for real time applications such as financial services is unusual in many remote facilities.
That said, Chen has imagined a smooth experience where users “can clarify their needs, such as computing power and network capacity,” without any basic chip architecture.
Whether this vision can be understood, it depends on solving infrastructure similarities and overcoming the technical boundaries that are currently in China’s computing power landscape.
Through the Reuters
