China’s 2026-2030 Implementation Plan for Promoting Coordinated Digital and
Green Transformation calls for green, low-carbon development of compute
facilities. It supports green design measures — including liquid cooling,
waste-heat recovery and low-power chips — and directs exploration of an 800V
high-voltage DC power architecture while promoting single-rack deployments above
100 kW. The plan requires green operational models using digital-twin
simulation, multimodal sensing and AI to enable real-time energy monitoring,
forecasting, dynamic adjustment and intelligent lifecycle management of data
centers. It mandates compute-power coordination: align compute green-power
demand with renewable absorption, steer compute capacity toward
wind/solar/hydro-rich regions, develop co-scheduling and green-power
direct-connection standards, and advance high-efficiency, long-duration,
large-capacity storage technologies and green certificate/green-power trading to
raise renewable use in compute facilities. It also urges accelerated upgrades of
small, aging compute sites and wider rollout of energy-saving, carbon-reduction
equipment and audits.
