Zibo city – located in East China's Shandong province – announced at the first China Computational Power Conference with leading artificial intelligence company SenseTime that they would build an AI computing power innovation center in the metropolis.
The conference was held in Jinan city, in East China's Shandong province, on July 30.
Zibo and SenseTime hold a signing ceremony for the AI computing power innovation center. [Photo/WeChat ID: zibofabu2014]
Computing power roughly refers to the ability to process data. With the development of the internet, 5G, cloud computing and other technologies, AI has gradually become the core engine for the development of the current digital economy.
It is expected that Shandong province will grow at a rate of more than 20 percent every year in terms of the scale of its computing power. The number of standard machines used by data centers in the province has now exceeded 240,000, an increase of over 60 percent compared with last year and quadruple the level in 2019.
Zibo is taking advantage of its strong industrial foundations, excellent business environment and advanced development concepts to ride the development wave.
It has set up the Zibo Computing Power Industry Technology Research Institute and an industrial database to foster the integration and innovation of computing power and industrial development.
SenseTime has taken the Artificial Intelligence Data Center, or AIDC – located in the Lin-gang Special Area in Shanghai in East China – as its computing base. AIDC is one of the largest AI computing centers in Asia and using it can reduce costs and entry barriers for large-scale AI applications in all industries. This can expand the boundaries of AI industrialization and cooperatively build an urban computing reservoir.
"SenseTime will help Zibo become an AI technology industry mecca and a leader in the construction of smart cities, by providing basic AI capabilities and support for public services," said Yang Fan, co-founder of SenseTime.
Moving forward, plans are for Zibo to accelerate the construction of the industrial computing center and attract upstream and downstream enterprises in the computing industry.
It aims to form a complete industrial supply chain covering data, computing power, algorithms, applications, services and other links.
