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Planting computing power in the glory is the real infrastructure of the AI era
Seetao 2026-08-07 09:56
  • Collaborative innovation of computing and electronics to solve the problem of green electricity fluctuations
  • Global computing power expansion encounters energy bottlenecks, and green and stable computing power has become an essential requirement in the industry
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The Gobi wind is blowing, and the green electricity that used to only drive windmills is now pouring into the same factory building to feed millions of computing cards. When the computer rooms on the other side of the ocean shut down due to a lack of electricity, the lights under the yellow sand turned 'where there is wind and light, there is intelligence' into reality.

Super monomer reshapes cluster collaboration logic

The big model racing has come this far, and the winner is no longer in a certain row of parameters in the laboratory, but in the rows of cabinets in the western Gobi Desert, whether they can continue to receive electricity. The shrinking and shutdown of computing power parks in many overseas places is not due to the inability to operate, but rather due to the inability to connect electricity to the cabinets; It's not that there aren't enough chips, it's that the power grid can't withstand the gigawatt level transition. When electricity goes from operating costs to admission qualifications, the underlying logic of AI infrastructure is rewritten - who can string green electricity, land, heat dissipation, and cluster scheduling together, and who is worthy of talking about million card interconnection.

Integrating computing and electronics to solve the problem of energy fluctuations

The significance of the Ulanqab Star River Base lies in this. It is not just a super unit of 120000 square meters, but integrates the wind farm on the power generation side, the dedicated line on the transmission side, the million card on the load side, and the energy big model on the dispatch side into the same system: green electricity accounts for nearly 70%, the AI power system uses weather and load forecasting to iron intermittent wind and solar power into stable current, and the coordinated loss of multi building networking is cut off in a single building centralized deployment. This paradigm of supercell+green power direct supply+computing power collaboration essentially answers the global challenge of how new energy rich areas can break free from the embarrassment of "having electricity but no computing power", making Gobi not only a power plant, but also a token factory.

Paradigm output definition green computing power standard

On a deeper level, this is the tangible realization of China's computing infrastructure for East West computing. The eastern region lacks electricity and land, the western region lacks load and industries, and in the past, both sides were in a state of rotation; Nowadays, the high latency training and inference base is moved westward, and green electricity is tied to the cabinet with dedicated lines. The new energy in the west is appreciated locally and converted into intelligent output value, while the scarce land in the east is reserved for low latency businesses. For the first time, the national computing power network is closed in the energy dimension. In addition to the single point breakthrough of chips, this path of clustering, green electrification, and systematization provides another foundation resilience for domestic computing power. Keywords: green computing power, computing power collaboration, East West computing, computing power infrastructure

The next stage of the AI industry is not about who claims to have a large number of parameters, but about whose every kilowatt hour of electricity can be stably converted into words. This lamp in the Gobi Desert reflects a paradigm shift in infrastructure: from 'where there are cities, where computer rooms are built' to 'where there is wind, where computing power grows'. Only by translating this sentence into engineering can we grasp the initiative in energy in the era of intelligence.Editor/Gong Ziwei

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