New driving force for industrial energy conservation in China: data centers, policies and technology upgrades
Can China's data centers solve its renewable energy glut? China is facing the challenge of overcapacity in renewable energy, and data centers are seen as a potential way to solve the problem. According to a report by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the energy consumption of China's data centers accounts for an increasing proportion of the country's total energy consumption. At the same time, the improvement of energy efficiency and technological progress of data centers also provide broad space for the utilization of renewable energy. The report points out that by optimizing the location and operation of data centers, especially by leveraging local abundant renewable resources,