Chongqing Cloud computing 3 million server targets in dispute

Zhongqing is currently planning to use 2-3 years to lure 2 million ~300 from 10 million servers in Europe and the United States to the region. But the plan was questioned by some experts in the country.

"3 million units" annual electricity consumption accounted for 20% of the city

Peng, a professor at the PLA Polytechnic University and director of Cloud computing, said in an open forum on August 25: "It is said that 10 million machines are supposed to draw 10 square kilometres to build a cloud computing center, what do 10 million units mean?" Google + Microsoft + Yahoo + Amazon all add up also does not have 10 million machines. ”

So how much electricity would it cost if 2 million ~300 thousands of servers were installed in Chongqing?

"The first financial daily" reporter in the survey learned that usually a home computer's actual power of about 100W. If the industry's usual estimate is that the power of each server is roughly 400W (the power consumption required to dissipate heat) is based on the calculation, that is, each cloud server consumes 0.4 degrees (kwh) per hour, 24 hours a day, Electricity consumption of 9.6 degrees a day, 10 million cloud computing server power consumption of 96 million degrees, near 100 million degrees of electricity, its annual power consumption close to 36.5 billion degrees.

If the layout target of Chongqing city is calculated with 3 million cloud computing servers, the annual power consumption is 10.95 billion degrees, if the annual power consumption is not calculated and the power supply increase, the proportion of 3 million servers in the local electricity consumption is 17.6%.

The two Rivers new District propaganda department staff said that, the area currently plans to layout "International Cloud Computing Center" the Development plan still only 1 million ~300 million servers. The plan is based on the 10 years of cloud computing across Asia and Europe and the United States to outsource to the Asian countries of the data processing server roughly 10 million, Zhongqing hope that in 2-3 years, from which to attract 20%~30% to the city settled.

3 million targets high?

"Even if 3 million sets are high"-just as Chongqing claimed to be the world's largest laptop base in the city 2 years ago, skepticism from outside is constantly appearing on the web.

Chongqing Liang Jiang New zone is not willing to talk too much about its cloud computing center, the department in the written reply to our correspondent said: "The recent cloud computing things because it is still in progress, a lot of data is not suitable for external disclosure." "As a result, it is not possible to further identify its cloud computing center's power supply solutions and thermal solutions to the region's relevant departments."

According to the introduction, this May officially entered the two-river new Area International Cloud computing Center Asia-Pacific region's largest independent telecommunications service provider Singapore Pacific Telecom Program investment of 150 million U.S. dollars, in Chongqing to build 1500 cabinet data room, a total of about 30,000 servers.

And there have been rumors that Google's servers up to 1 million, its cooling solution, may be cited in the United States Oregon State (Oregon) data center near the reservoir water for the server cooling, to reduce the huge server cooling costs.

(Responsible editor: Duqing first)