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Accelerating the Evolution of Eastern China's Urban AI Computing Centers Toward E-AIDC
Recently, Damao Technology and Shanghai Pudong Environmental Protection Energy Development Co., Ltd. (referred to as “Pudong Environmental Protection Energy”) formally signed a strategic cooperation agreement. The two parties will work closely in four areas: energy efficiency optimization and intelligent management of data centers, market-based electricity operations, the development of an intelligent computing-power and electricity coordination system, and the joint development of a collaborative ecosystem. Together, they aim to put computing-power and electricity coordination into practice and support industry development.
As the first concrete outcome of this strategic cooperation, Damao Technology is building a computing-power and electricity coordination platform for the Liming AI Computing Center in Pudong New Area, a national pilot project for computing-power and electricity coordination, quickly turning the two parties’ strategic plans into practical results.
Pudong Environmental Protection Energy is a wholly state-owned enterprise established by Shanghai Pudong Development Group. As the group’s core entity for green, low-carbon and computing services, it has long worked in environmental protection and new energy. It has developed an end-to-end energy operations model covering “power generation, energy storage, power distribution, energy use and trading,” and is an important implementation platform for computing-power and electricity coordination and the green computing industry in Pudong New Area.
As a provider of core software and full-lifecycle value operations services in computing-power and electricity coordination, Damao Technology uses its self-developed, domain-specific large energy model and cluster of intelligent agents as its technological foundation. It has full-lifecycle service capabilities spanning project consulting and planning, integrated application of AI products for computing-power and electricity coordination, and integrated maintenance and operations.
Under the agreement, the two parties will draw on their respective strengths and carry out comprehensive strategic cooperation in phases:
Data center energy efficiency optimization and intelligent management: Jointly build a safe, reliable, green, efficient and intelligently controllable data center energy operations system; develop integrated intelligent energy management and dispatch capabilities; optimize cooling operations strategies; improve safety mechanisms; and make energy use visible and operations digital.
Market-based electricity operations and decision support: Jointly advance the development of a virtual power plant system, resource aggregation, platform operations and market-based trading. Through end-to-end technical support for trading strategy optimization, market submissions and electricity price forecasting to inform decisions, the parties aim to make full use of energy assets and increase revenue from market-based value-added services.
Intelligent computing-power and electricity coordination system and general-purpose market platform: Drawing on Damao Technology’s intelligent algorithms and large energy model technology, jointly build an integrated intelligent dispatch system for computing power, electricity and energy consumption resources; create a standardized, reusable platform for the industry; and develop a benchmark solution for computing-power and electricity coordination that can be replicated and promoted.
Deep computing-power and electricity coordination ecosystem and joint capability development: Explore innovative models for deeper resource coordination in data centers, continue building technical reserves and researching solutions, expand the depth and breadth of strategic cooperation, and develop a lasting industry ecosystem for computing-power and electricity coordination.
As the first project under the strategic cooperation, construction of the computing-power and electricity coordination platform for the Liming AI Computing Center has officially begun.
The Liming AI Computing Center is the first computing cluster with 10,000-class accelerator capacity in northern Pudong, Shanghai, and is also a national pilot project for computing-power and electricity coordination. It has a total designed power capacity of 18 megawatts. The project uses an innovative combination of direct supply of green electricity from biomass, cooling using waste heat, and cascading use of residual cold from LNG phase changes, making it a benchmark green AI computing center with an ultra-low PUE.
Construction of the computing-power and electricity coordination platform covers several components, including platform feature development, data collection and integration, implementation and deployment, and operations training. It will deliver core functions including resource monitoring, operations analysis, load forecasting, coordinated dispatch and system management for the AI computing center.
Once completed, the platform will enable digital management of energy use across the entire park, aggregated monitoring of flexible resources such as chilled-water storage tanks, and support for coordinated dispatch strategies for the cooling system. While ensuring the park operates safely and steadily, it will continuously improve PUE and energy consumption management and provide a solid technical foundation for future participation in market-based activities such as electricity trading and electricity ancillary services.
At present, AI computing centers in eastern Chinese cities generally face practical challenges from grid capacity constraints and tightening energy consumption targets. Computing-power and electricity coordination has shifted from an option for reducing costs to a key path for high-quality industry development.
This strategic cooperation between Damao Technology and Pudong Environmental Protection Energy brings together a state-owned energy operations platform and an AI technology company. Starting with the Liming AI Computing Center, the two parties will closely integrate experience in energy engineering and operations with AI-based intelligent energy-saving control technology to explore a replicable, scalable operating model for computing-power and electricity coordination in urban AI computing centers.
This cooperation will help AI computing centers evolve from traditional passive electricity loads into active energy operations nodes that can be adjusted, traded and used to generate added value. It will provide a model for implementing computing-power and electricity coordination at scale in AI computing centers in eastern Chinese cities and help move the E-AIDC, or energy-driven AI computing center, paradigm from concept into broader industry practice.
This article was provided by Damao Technology and republished by QbitAI with authorization. The views expressed are those of the original author.