The core support for digital services such as short video streaming, intelligent navigation, and online Q&A is computing power. Comprehensively empowering various industries with computing power and driving industrial transformation. The old coal city of Datong is firmly committed to the new quality productivity of computing power, and has completed the transformation from coal and power transmission to computing power and services within ten years, becoming a benchmark for the transformation of resource-based cities. Relying on energy and location advantages, Datong has gathered top enterprises to layout the computing power track and embark on a path of characteristic transformation.

Giants gather to build a computing power highland

Datong proposed to build three cities: energy, computing power, and culture. The computing power industry has won multiple national honors, and the computing power scale has remained among the top in the country. The city has built over 420000 standard racks, with an annual power consumption of 6 billion kilowatt hours, a significant increase compared to five years ago. Qinhuai, Jingdong, Tiktok, Zoomlion, Qinneng five leading enterprises settled in Lingqiu, Guangling, Yanggao counties, landed in large-scale data centers, intelligent computing bases, and built a complete complementary and collaborative computing industry matrix.

The core of computing power competition is low-cost and stable electricity, which is precisely the core advantage of Datong. The local area vigorously develops new energy sources such as wind and solar power, and has built a large-scale wind and solar power base in coal mining subsidence areas that is unique to the country. It is equipped with ultra-high voltage transmission lines that directly supply power to the Beijing Tianjin Hebei region, and can repair large areas of subsidence land and reduce huge amounts of carbon dioxide emissions every year. The installed capacity of new energy in Datong accounts for nearly 60% of the city's electricity, achieving a transformation from being dominated by one coal to being complementary to multiple energy sources. With multiple benefits such as a low-temperature climate, proximity to the Beijing Tianjin Hebei region, favorable electricity prices, and complete supporting facilities, coupled with special support policies, a large number of computing power projects have been attracted to land, consolidating the foundation of the development of the city of computing power.

Expand the career track

The development of computing power cannot be separated from the support of the data annotation industry. Datong has introduced supportive policies such as rent reduction, free skills training, and employment subsidies, gathering 75 data annotation enterprises and driving 35600 people into employment. A new data technology vocational college will be established in the local area, focusing on AI to offer characteristic majors, promoting the integration of industry and education, and providing targeted training for digital technology talents, building a complete cultivation system covering grassroots operators to high-end technical talents. Keywords: Datong, collaborative computing and electronics, new energy

Based on the construction plan of the Beijing Tianjin Hebei Computing Power Corridor, Datong continues to expand its computing power projects and promote the direct supply of green electricity to data centers. It is expected that the annual computing power consumption will exceed 7.2 billion kilowatt hours. The local landing computing equipment manufacturing project adopts advanced liquid cooling energy-saving technology in the data center, and Qineng Technology has built a unique computing and electricity collaborative green park in the province, realizing the on-site conversion of electricity into high-value computing services. Improve the local ultra-high voltage and substation power grid supporting facilities to ensure stable power supply for computing power. The synergy of computing and electronics has been elevated to a top-level development strategy, continuously releasing green digital momentum and promoting the digital transformation of Datong, this resource rich old city.Editor/Gong Ziwei