The Gui’an Huawei Cloud Data Center is the world’s largest Huawei Cloud data center with an operational capacity of over 1 million servers. It serves as a key facility for Huawei Cloud, Huawei BP&IT and consumer cloud services. Located in Gui’an New District, Guizhou Province, construction began in August 2017 and it is one of two main Huawei Cloud data centers in China.
The phase 1 construction area covers approximately 480,000 square meters and is divided into three subareas. All 51 buildings in phase 1 have been completed with nine being used as the data center facility and the rest as auxiliary facilities.
Huawei Cloud’s Gui’an data center is designed with green and intelligent technologies to reduce energy consumption and GHG emissions. With a PUE of 1.12, it is one of the most efficient in the industry.
Some of the measures taken include:
- using direct ventilation for natural cooling,
- developing a medium-temperature chilled water system that reuses waste heat,
- introducing liquid cooling technology to increase efficiency and reduce PUE,
- applying AI to balance loads among servers and increase resource utilization, and
- replacing copper components with power semiconductors to reduce power loss.
When operating at full capacity, the data center is expected to save 1.01 billion kWh of electricity per year and offset more than 810,000 tons of carbon emissions.
