Recently, Guangnan Cloud Computing Power Center was officially unveiled and lit up in Guangnan County, Wenshan Prefecture, Yunnan Province. The first phase of 1000P FP16 precision intelligent computing power has been put into operation. At the end of July 2026, the 110 kV Hongpo and Xiaoguangnan substations will complete power transmission operations and the permanent power supply connection project will be put into operation. This is the first thousand level county-level intelligent computing hub in Yunnan, and also the first project in southeastern Yunnan to directly sink computing power nodes to the county level. The total investment of the project is about 930 million yuan, with a planned total output of 3000P. After full production, the annual revenue is expected to exceed 300 million yuan.

Differentiated positioning at the county level

Guangnan County is located at the border of Yunnan, Guangxi, and Guizhou provinces, and is one of the land transportation nodes facing the Beibu Gulf, Pearl River Delta, and South and Southeast Asia in Yunnan. Deploying intelligent computing nodes here can theoretically cover the service radius of computing power in three circles: industrial transfer within the province, spillover demand from the Greater Bay Area, and cross-border digital trade. In the past decade, China's computing infrastructure has been highly concentrated in the three major economic circles and national level hubs. Counties can only obtain second-hand computing power from provincial capital cities, with high latency, expensive bandwidth, and inflexible scheduling. Directly building a thousand level node in Guangnan is equivalent to creating a regional computing power anchor point at the county level, using a combination of border areas and counties to find differentiated ecological niches.

Green electricity and modular deployment

The proportion of hydropower installed capacity in Yunnan has exceeded 70% for a long time, and Wenshan Prefecture has outstanding clean energy endowments. On July 30, 2026, the project completed the dual power transmission of 110 kV Hongpo and Xiaoguangnan substations, achieving permanent dual power supply with a PUE as low as 1.25, meeting the national second level energy efficiency standard. The first phase of 1000P can be lit up in a short period of time, largely relying on pre integrated modular shelters. The cabinets, power distribution, air conditioning, weak current, and fire protection are prefabricated in the factory and lifted into place like building blocks on site, shortening the construction period by more than half compared to traditional civil engineering rooms. However, hydropower has seasonality, and during the dry season, the proportion of purchased electricity increases, while the proportion of green electricity fluctuates. A truly stable direct supply of green electricity requires electricity trading and coordination between source, grid, load, and storage. Keywords: high-tech news and information, computing power, intelligent computing center

Ecology and consumption to be verified

The project is invested by Jiangsu Ruiwo Group and operated by Wenshan Cloud Chain Technology. It adopts a government guided and private enterprise investment model, and has signed a 6-year hosting underwriting agreement. The long-term agreement can lock in the basic cash flow in the early stage. Guangnan has introduced Baidu AI Cloud, JD Technology and other leading enterprises, and signed cooperation in smart agriculture, smart pension, cross-border e-commerce and other fields. Guangnan Digital Industry Park has gathered nearly a thousand digital talents, including nine young people from Chengcheng County. However, in the field of intelligent computing in China, the scale of thousand P can only be considered lightweight, and the seasonality of hydropower, insufficient talent reserves, and distance from core customer markets are all hard constraints that cannot be avoided. The reasonable customer profile of this node is not based on large-scale model training, but on low latency scenarios such as data preprocessing for provincial government affairs, agricultural AI, edge reasoning, and cross-border e-commerce. Whether the Guangnan model can be promoted in other counties in Yunnan and even in southwestern counties depends on whether there are enough real businesses to feed the computing power in the next three to five years.Editor/Gao Xue