(Yicai) Sept. 2 -- China Southern Power Grid has joined hands with China Telecom and State Power Investment Corporation to establish a consortium to promote national computing power interconnectivity and provide renewable energy support for the development of the domestic computing power sector.

CSG will provide scheduling and data support through the electricity-carbon-computing collaborative operation system and the trusted energy data foundation, the Guangzhou-based power grid giant announced yesterday. China Telecom will leverage its computing power scheduling platform and all-optical backbone network to achieve unified management of heterogeneous computing power and high-speed connectivity, while SPIC will strengthen green power supply guarantees by capitalizing on its advantages in the clean energy sector.

China's rapidly growing computing power market relies heavily on stable electricity support, with issues such as high energy consumption, high carbon emissions, and a mismatch between computing power and green energy becoming increasingly prominent. The green and low-carbon transformation of computing power, as well as the efficient scheduling of computing resources, has become an important topic for the market's development.

The tie-up between the three major central enterprises will further facilitate cross-industry coordination among energy, computing power, and data, an industry insider told Yicai. The initiative will likely enhance clean energy use, cut energy costs and carbon emissions in the computing power market, and strengthen the foundation for secure and reliable data circulation, the person pointed out.

CSG, China Telecom, and SPIC will promote the dual integration of "East Data West Computing" and "West-to-East Electricity Transmission," facilitating the flexible migration of computing tasks in line with wind and solar power generation and supporting the "computing power follows green electricity" concept. The consortium aims to be fully set up by next June, when it will enhance the interconnection and interoperability of electricity and computing in key regions of Guangdong and Guizhou provinces.

According to the overall deployment of the national computing power interconnectivity node system previously released by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the power industry node will create China's first industry-level computing power hub, enabling deep collaboration among the "electricity-carbon-computing intelligent network."

Editor: Martin Kadiev