2017年11年18日，中美能源合作项目联合美国贸易发展署、美国驻华大使馆商务处、美国国家标准机构、南通市政府、中国电子学会共同组织主办的中美绿色数据中心暨大数据产业发展高峰论坛顺利在南通顺利召开。本次论坛由南通市经济开发区管理委员会、南通市经济和信息化委员会、南通市大数据管理局承办。美国贸易发展署东亚区项目主任温凯时、美国驻华大使馆高级商务官员韩博韬、工业和信息化部能源节约处处长尤勇、中国电子学会副秘书长刘明亮等相关部门领导出席了会议并致辞。此次大会吸引了来自阿里巴巴、中国联通、万国数据、华为、江苏凤凰、卡特彼勒、联合技术、江森自控、美国新云、霍尼韦尔、美国OSlsoft等国际知名企业代表两百余人共聚一堂。
中国的数据中心行业在过去的五年中发展迅猛。数据中心行业的主要特点之一是电力需求量大，而中国电力大多来自燃煤电厂，这就意味着目前为止中国数据中心还是有着较大的碳足迹。在过去的五年，技术发展已经大大降低了数据中心的PUE值，现在我们将致力于那些能更进一步降低功耗的集成技术，包括：按需供电、高温运行、高压直流配电、服务器功耗优化及管理、液体冷却、低温热回收、数据中心的清洁能源热电联产CCHP以及微电网等。绿色节能已经成为数据中心发展的刚性需求。
中美双方的交流和技术探讨将会在政策标准等各个领域创造出合作机会，共同推动中美绿色数据中心的建设。中美能源合作项目（ECP）和中国电子学会在数据中心、绿色节能领域合作诸多，从2013年底至今，共同组织的研讨会论坛、赴美考察、示范项目、商业合作等一系列活动都促进了数据中心行业的绿色健康发展，此次南通峰会是第六届论坛。2017年中国开始了国家绿色数据中心试点单位评价工作，已经确定了一批国家绿色数据中心名单。为引导数据中心积极采用先进节能环保技术，推动绿色数据中心建设，工业和信息化部分别于2016年、2017年组织开展了两批绿色数据中心先进适用技术筛选工作，绿色数据中心先进适用技术目录（第二批）即将发布，组织论坛交流绿色建设的工作经验和做法势必对绿色数据中心的工作发挥重要作用。
此次选择在南通市举办中美绿色数据中心高峰论坛，既为中美绿色数据中心企业搭建了交流技术合作共赢的平台，也为南通发展大数据产业提供了宝贵经验和有益借鉴，对加快中美绿色数据中心建设，推动南通大数据产业发展，打造华东地区重要信息港具有重要意义。南通市大数据及相关产业发展迅速，率先成立大数据管理局，建设了南通大数据国际产业园，部署机柜近3000个，可容纳5万多台服务器。南通市已建成大数据产业园和国际数据中心产业园，一大批大数据产业项目得以落户。
论坛得到了与会代表的广泛好评，各方代表积极互动，提出了许多宝贵意见和建议。相信通过中美双方不断地探讨技术、标准和合作机制等，一定能够进一步推动中美绿色数据中心的建设。
6th US-China Green Data Center Workshop
6th US-China Green Data Center Workshop was held in Nantong on November 18, 2017. The workshop was led by US-China Energy Cooperation Program (ECP), co-hosted by US Trade and Development Agency (USTDA), Department of Commerce (DOC), American National Standard Institute (ANSI), Nantong Municipal People’s Government, Chinese Institute of Electronics (CIE), and co-organized by Nantong Economic and Development District Management Committee, Nantong Economic and Information Technology Commission and Nantong Big Data Administration. Leaders from government departments and institutions concerned, like Steven Winkates, Program Management Director for East Asia, USTDA, Bradley Harker, Senior Commercial Officer of DOC, US Embassy Beijing, You Yong, Director of Energy Conservation Department of Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) and LIU Mingliang, Deputy Secretary General of CIE delivered speeches at the summit. More than 200 representatives from international well-known enterprises, like Alibaba, China Unicom, GDS, Huawei,Caterpillar, UTC, JCI, Nuclear, Honeywell and OSIsoft attended the event.
China’s data center industry has been developing rapidly in the past five years. One of the main features of this industry is its great demand for electronic power, which at present mostly comes from coal-fired power plants. To reduce the carbon footprint in data center industry, ECP focuses on integration technologies that can further reduce energy consumption, including power on demand, high-temperature operation, liquid cooling, low-temperature heat recovery, CCHP, micro grid, etc. Energy saving has becomea fundamental demand of data center development.
Since the end of 2013, ECP and CIE have cooperated inorganizing a series of activities on green data center, such as workshops,investigation tours to US, project demonstrations and business cooperation, including the US-China Green Data Center Workshops. This year, China started its evaluations of national green data center experimental units, and a list of China’s national green data centers was released by MIIT to promote energy-saving technologies. Organizing workshops and other activities for experience sharing and cooperation between US and China will be of great importance to the construction of green data centers in both countries.
The event was held in Nantong, which has not only provided agood platform for cooperation between US and Chinese green data center enterprises, but also offered valuable experiences for Nantong’s big data industry development. It is also significant for constructing an important cyber port in eastern China. Nantong is one of the first cities in China to set up a big data bureau and build an international big data industrial park with nearly 3000 racks to hold over 50,000 servers. Nantong’s international big data industrial park and data center industrial park have attracted a number of projects in big data industry.
The workshop was widely praised by attendees. At the meeting, representatives actively interacted with each other, making lots of valuable comments and suggestions. ECP believes with a constant communication between US and China on technology, cooperation mechanism, etc., US-China green datacenters will surely be further developed.
