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Must-read ICT paper re-published by State Information Center, responsible for China's gov data infrastructure. Outlines current development problems wrt state data centers, which are driving many of the telecom and energy policies we're seeing today. 1/7 http://www.sic.gov.cn/News/609/10969.htm …
The short version: Data center development and national data processing is hampered due to 1) Inefficient network layout, 2) Not enough energy in eastern provinces and surplus energy in western provinces, 3) High cost of electricity. 2/7
"Because [network] layout [is decided by] downstream user demand, Inner Mongolia, Gansu, Ningxia, Hebei, Xinjiang and other places where the super-large data centers in the western region are concentrated have no national-level Internet backbone direct connection points." 3/7
"Facing huge data center energy consumption requirements, first-tier cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen have introduced control policies, or completely banned new and expanded data centers in central urban areas ...." 4/7
..."For example, China Telecom originally planned to build 3,000 racks in Yizhuang, Beijing, but was forced to shut down due to lack of power supply quotas." 5/7
"More than 60% of data center operational cost is electricity consumption. China's data center electricity prices are calculated based on industrial electricity consumption..." 6/7
"...The average [industrial electricity] price is 1.25 to 1.45 times the average residential electricity price, and the average cost is around RMB 0.7, which is higher than that in the United States." 7/7
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