CCTV News | A Benchmark Project of the “Computing Power Network”: Leading AI Large-Model Companies Have Connected to Underwater Computing Resources-Highlander

2026-11-01

CCTV News | A Benchmark Project of the “Computing Power Network”: Leading AI Large-Model Companies Have Connected to Underwater Computing Resources

The computing power network is the foundational support for the development of artificial intelligence. As a major project under the 15th Five-Year Plan, it is speeding up and upgrading in this opening year, and localities are advancing the building of a Digital China in line with their own conditions.

With the eight national computing hubs laid out across east, west, south and north, the “East Data, West Computing” project has built a nationwide integrated computing power network. Today the eight hubs each play to their strengths, and the network is still being woven faster and wider.

In the waters of the East China Sea, the offshore wind power direct-connection underwater data center in Shanghai’s Lingang has recently entered full commercial operation. Domestic carriers and leading AI large-model companies have already connected to its underwater computing resources and are running commercial applications such as inference on domestic large models and scientific computing.

In the East Data, West Computing industrial park in Qingyang, Gansu Province, a new data center is under intensive construction. More than 12,000 standard racks are about to be put into full operation for the training and inference of large models, and the added computing power will compress the iteration cycle of intelligent driving large models from “waiting by the month” to “calculated by the hour.”

In Zhongwei, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, to handle the sharply increased orders this year, the computing center of the Western Cloud Base, which is still under construction, has switched to a winter construction mode to make up time.

The nationwide integrated computing power network, spreading ever wider, is linking eastern demand with western resources, serving the real economy and benefiting people’s daily lives.

In the Horinger New Area of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, 26 computing centers have entered a phase of large-scale construction, and a batch of intelligent applications for distinctive industries is being rolled out at an accelerating pace. A vertical large model for forage grass makes bulk forage trading as convenient as online shopping, and a cattle face recognition AI system achieves precise identification of individual dairy cows. Computing power is activating new quality productive forces in traditional agriculture and animal husbandry and empowering the development of smart pastures.

In the Gui’an New Area of Guizhou Province, another data center is under intensive construction here, which will support more livelihood scenarios such as intelligent driving, smart transportation and smart elderly care. An AI assistant built through “AI plus government services” forms a comprehensive intelligent agent for government services, advancing the intelligentization of government services and steadily improving public convenience in handling affairs and the efficiency of item approval.

In Karamay, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, massive volumes of oilfield production data collected in real time, dynamic analysis and intelligent assessment run through the entire oil and gas production chain. The former oil city on the Gobi Desert is speeding up its transformation into a new city of computing power.

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