A few days ago, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) responded to a proposal by Li Bingji, a deputy to the National People's Congress, to regulate the construction of green data centers.

With the rapid development of China's digital economy, data centers are growing at a high speed, and their energy conservation and green development are attracting wide attention, according to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. According to relevant estimates, the total scale of data center racks in China in 2019 exceeds 2.26 million, and the power consumption exceeds 130 billion KWH, accounting for about 2% of the electricity consumption of the whole society. Accelerating the construction of green data centers is an important task of building a new generation of information infrastructure, which is of great significance to improving the utilization efficiency of resources and energy and further promoting green and low-carbon development.

Currently, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has carried out the following work:

First, we will strengthen policy guidance. The Ministry, together with the State Administration of Commerce and the Administration of Energy, issued the Guidance on Strengthening the Construction of Green Data Centers, proposing the key tasks and goals of accelerating the construction of green data centers in the new era, and requiring the power use efficiency (PUE) value of newly built large and super-large data centers to reach below 1.4. The National Guidelines on The Application and Development of Data Centers shall be compiled on an annual basis to guide data centers to be concentrated in regions with high market demand or sufficient energy supply and superior natural environment. Jointly with the Development and Reform Commission and other departments, we will study and promote the construction of a national integrated data center system, so as to promote the large-scale, intensive and green development of data centers. GuoGuanJu in the public institutions to save energy resources "much starker choices-and graver consequences-in planning" to earnestly study and implement xi ecological civilization thought and thorough going efforts to promote public institutions have been the focus of the saving in energy, resources, ecological environment protection and measures ", clear public institutions to carry out green data center operations, from the aspects of energy-saving reform, perfect and statistical measurement to strengthen the concrete measures are put forward.

Second, we will accelerate the popularization and application of advanced technological products. "Much starker choices-and graver consequences-in", has released the first national 3 green data center for advanced technology product catalogue, include the resource utilization efficiency of energy, renewable energy and distributed energy, waste recycling, green operations management fit-out technology, further guide and strengthen the green design, green construction, green purchasing, green development level improve data center. In 2020, support Dawning Energy Saving Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd. and other three green manufacturing system solution suppliers to provide green design, operation and maintenance, energy saving renovation and other engineering and technical services for data center and base station construction. The State Administration of China issued the Catalogue of Advanced Applicable Technologies for Green Data Centers of Public Institutions and Advanced Applicable Solutions for Green Data Centers of Public Institutions, organized and carried out seminars on advanced applicable technologies for green data centers of public institutions, and guided public institutions to accelerate the application of advanced applicable technologies for green data centers. To support and promote the energy-saving and green transformation of more than 500 data centers of public institutions.

Third, improve service support capacity. We will further improve the standard system and organize research on green data center standards. So far, more than 30 standards for the design, construction, operation and maintenance, evaluation and technical products of green data centers, such as the Guidelines for Comprehensive Utilization of Energy in Data Centers, have been developed and revised to speed up the green development of data centers. We will further strengthen the management of energy use in data centers. Since 2019, we will carry out a special monitoring of energy conservation in data centers to prevent them from using energy efficiently in accordance with laws and regulations. We will launch a campaign to provide diagnostic services for energy conservation. By 2020, we will organize third-party service agencies to carry out a special energy-saving diagnosis for 23 data centers and data industrial parks, help relevant units explore their potential for energy conservation, and put forward Suggestions for green transformation.

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) said it strongly agrees with the proposals on scientifically planning the layout of green data centers, vigorously promoting advanced and applicable technology and equipment, and improving the evaluation index system of green data centers. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, together with relevant departments, will strive to do the following:

One is to scientifically plan the layout of green data centers. In the 14th five-year Plan for the development of the communications industry and the green development plan for the industrial and communications industry, the requirements for the green development of data centers were strictly enforced and the construction of green data centers was accelerated. The Joint Development and Reform Commission and other departments will soon issue guidelines on speeding up the building of an integrated national big data center, strengthen top-level planning and planning for data centers, data resources and computing power, and increase the consumption of renewable energy. We will promote the "coordination of data networks", coordinate the network and data centers and other application facilities, promote basic telecommunications enterprises to constantly optimize the national network layout, strengthen the monitoring of data center network capacity, and provide network guarantee for the construction and application of data centers.

Second, we will vigorously promote the use of advanced, applicable technologies and equipment for energy conservation and emission reduction. We will carry out activities such as data center energy saving diagnosis and providing energy saving services to enterprises, release the 2020 list of advanced energy saving technology and equipment products for the industrial and communications industries, and guide data centers to use advanced and applicable energy saving and green technology products. In conjunction with the National Development and Reform Commission, Ministry of Commerce, GuoGuanJu, silver circ, energy administration organization to carry out the national green data center selection work, support a batch in the energy efficiency of resource utilization, green design and green procurement, green operations integrated with higher levels of data center, guide and stimulate the development of regional and industry data center green development.

Third, we will improve the mechanism for ensuring the construction of green data centers. We will accelerate the preparation and revision of the Guidelines for Comprehensive Energy Utilization Evaluation of Data Centers and other relevant standards, improve standards in the fields of green data center design, construction, operation and maintenance, evaluation and technical products, and establish and improve the standard system for green data centers. Third party service agencies should be actively cultivated to improve their consulting, evaluation, diagnosis and other services for data centers, and data centers should be encouraged to carry out green technology transformation and operation and maintenance optimization based on diagnosis results. We will strengthen oversight of energy use in data centers, continue to carry out special monitoring of energy conservation in data centers, and promote energy conservation and green development in data centers.