China's Data Center Demand Outstripping Supply

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Last week, standing deputy director Zhou Hongren of the Advisory Committee for State Informatization (ACSI) said that China‘s data centers were facing a fundamental problem: the speed with which new data centers are being built is being outpaced by growing demand. Furthermore, China‘s data centers are primarily centralized in Beijing,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Shanghai, Guangzhou,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and other regions along the country‘s east coast,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], resulting in high power consumption and a heavy concentration of waste heat. Because of this,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Zhou said,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the migration of data centers northward will be a major trend over time. Zhou added that cloud storage could offer a solution to the issue.