China expected to inaugurate mega data centres clusters

• China has approved to build four mega clusters of data centres in China’s north and west to support the need for data of Beijing and major coastal centres.

• The clusters are expected to be built in the northern Inner Mongolia region, northwestern part of the Ningxia region, Gansu province and southwestern Guizhou province.

• The state planner has commented that the four locations can be used to set up green and low-carbon mega centres.

• Chinese cities have already built renewable energy resources like wind and solar power to serve the economically developed coast.

• The move has come after the energy-hungry data centres in China’s eastern coast have found difficulty in expansion due to the limits posed by the electricity corporation.

• A marine economy development plan on December 14 encouraged coastal cities like Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Zhuhai to relocate high energy energy-consuming centres to underwater stations.