Shanghai among top data centers
SHANGHAI and Beijing are among the world’s top 10 data centers by total market size, according to a recent industry report.
Shanghai is now the world’s fourth-largest data center with market capacity of nearly 0.6 gigawatts, surpassed only by Northern Virginia in the United States, Tokyo and London, according to Cushman & Wakefield’s 2021 Global Data Center Market Comparison report that covers 48 data center markets around the world. Beijing ranks 10th.
“The pandemic accelerated changes in corporate information technology strategies, as companies rapidly shifted to the cloud,” said Dave Fanning, executive managing director and data center advisory group leader at Cushman & Wakefield. “Construction of new products has skyrocketed. In last year’s report, 1.6 gigawatts of data were under construction in markets we studied, which increased to 2.9 gigawatts in this year’s edition.”
Data center rack space demand has grown considerably in China in recent years, and the cloud sector is drawing considerable attention. Much of the demand is coming from Internet companies and application developers, such as e-commerce businesses, multimedia content providers, digital payment enterprises and location-based service application developers.
Looking ahead, there will be a greater need for data and information processing racks in data centers around China, spurred on by the impact of COVID19 on Internet activity, as well as the accelerated development of the cloud, big data, the Internet of Things, virtual reality, artificial intelligence and the 5G networks. By the end of 2022, Kezhi Consulting predicts the market value of data centers in China will exceed 320 billion yuan (US$49.5 billion).
Within the Asia-Pacific, Sydney and Singapore are among the top 10 data center markets in terms of overall rankings.
The study evaluated 1,189 data centers around the world using a unique weighted methodology.
A GROUP of Shanghai doctors and medical facilities were honored as national role models in China’s poverty alleviation fight in Beijing yesterday.
Dr He Tianlin of the Shanghai Yueyang Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine is one of the honorees. He spent three years in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region providing support and medical guidance at Karamay Central Hospital, including doctor training and setting up a clinic for poor people.
“Medical service is also a type of poverty eradication,” he said.
He arranged for a group of Xinjiang medical workers to visit Shanghai for training and also launched pediatric training courses for poor people in the region that helped them attain professional skills.
“The training is targeted and precise and helps the poor escape from poverty,” he said.
Dr Sun Jinqiao of the Children’s Hospital of Fudan University and Huashan Hospital’s neurosurgery department was among those to be honored.
Sun offered his support for health services in Qinghai Province. He served as president of Qinghua Guoluo Prefecture People’s Hospital, where he oversaw the construction and renovation of its imaging center, operating theater, emergency department, infectious disease center, information center and medical waste-processing practice.
Sun also introduced medical services and skills catering to local needs, and established a rescue system for acute myocardial infarction, a problem that is common in the highaltitude regions of China.