China has offered a glimpse at the processing power of its national compute capacity, and pointed to plans to grow it by 30 percent this year alone. D

China plans to boost national compute capacity thirty percent by 2025

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2024-07-08 13:00:04

China has offered a glimpse at the processing power of its national compute capacity, and pointed to plans to grow it by 30 percent this year alone.

Details of China's current capacity emerged in recent days at the Global Digital Economy Conference 2024, where Wang Xiaoli, a representative of the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, revealed that China has over 8.1 million datacenter racks in operation and that they house kit with combined processing power of 230 exaFLOPS.

Just how China plans to add 70 more exaFLOPS to its national compute fleet in coming months wasn't discussed. That's a live question given state media reported a jump from 180 exaFLOPS in 2022 to 197 in August 2023.

Eleven months later, China's exaFLOPS count has risen by 33 – suggesting adding 70 in the "by 2025" timeframe would represent a considerable acceleration.

One of the state media reports suggests Tesla has a part to play in China's surge. It quotes Shanghai-based cloud computing datacenter service provider Yovole Network as having adopted "hydrogen energy, photovoltaic storage, indirect evaporative cooling and liquid cooling technologies" to power its bit barns. Yovole Network also, as of April, "partnered with Tesla to apply their Megapack energy storage technology at our intelligent computing center."