In April in Lanzhou, the Yellow River flows endlessly, and in the intelligent economic industrial base of Chengguan District, a wave of construction related to the "Digital Yellow River" is surging. On April 10, 2026, with the first shovel of loess falling, the Intelligent Computing Center+Artificial Intelligence Large Model Industrial Park project in Chengguan District, Lanzhou City, with a total investment of 6 billion yuan, officially broke ground. This is not only the foundation of a building, but also an "acceleration key" pressed by Gansu on the digital economy track. On site, the person in charge of Changkun (Gansu) Cloud Technology Co., Ltd. looked at the planning map and sighed, "This will give birth to the 'heart' of Gansu's AI industry. ”

A digital giant on 50 acres of land

This highly anticipated project has defined what it means to be a 'new infrastructure benchmark' with concrete data. The total investment is as high as 6 billion yuan, covering an area of about 50 acres, ranking among the top in terms of volume among intelligent computing centers in the northwest region.

Plan to build an intelligent computing power center with a capacity of up to 10000P, which is equivalent to performing over 10 trillion calculations per second; Equipped with a storage capacity of 50P, it is sufficient to accommodate massive data resources.

Thousands of high standard cabinets will be built, mainly carrying core tasks such as high-performance computing, AI model training, general computing, and data processing.

The implementation of this infrastructure means that Lanzhou has taken a crucial step from a simple "data storage location" to an "intelligent computing highland" in the "East Data West Computing" project.

Seize the national opportunity of 'counting from the east and calculating from the west'

The commencement of this project is not an isolated event, but an important chess piece for Gansu to deeply integrate into the national strategy.

Recently, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology launched the "Millisecond Computing" special action, and both Lanzhou City and Qingyang City were selected as the first batch of implementation areas. This means that Lanzhou is building a high-speed, high-capacity, and low latency computing power network system. The Chengguan District Intelligent Computing Center is timely and will become a key computing power supply node in this network, with the potential to achieve "millisecond level" response to data demand in the east in the future.

At the same time, Gansu is relying on the construction of the national hub node (Gansu section) of the integrated computing power network to accelerate the creation of a digital economy highland. From the big data industrial park in Lanzhou New Area to the intelligent computing center in Chengguan District, Gansu's computing power map is connecting from "points" to "networks", providing a solid "hardcore foundation" for undertaking the overflow of computing power demand from the east.

The Transformation from Computing Power to Productivity

For industries in Lanzhou and even Gansu, this intelligent computing center not only brings servers, but also serves as an engine for industrial transformation.

After completion, it will provide almost "zero distance" computing power support for emerging industries such as artificial intelligence, big data, and intelligent manufacturing in Gansu, greatly reducing the research and development costs of local enterprises.

As an "industrial park", it will also attract AI algorithm companies, data service providers, and application development teams to settle in, forming a cluster effect of "computing power+industry", and helping Gansu build a digital economy highland in the western region.

From loess land to "silicon-based" land, the foundation laying in Lanzhou is injecting new "intelligent" connotations into the development of the western region.Editor/Yang Meiling