Beijing Municipal Government issued its 15th Five-Year new-type energy-system plan, explicitly requiring that new compute centers use 100% green power and that existing data centers bring power usage effectiveness to 1.35 or below, Xinhua Finance reported on October 28.
The plan coordinates energy resources with compute-layout improvements, extends energy-saving and carbon-reduction retrofits to compute, communication base stations and equipment rooms, and pushes unit-compute energy and carbon efficiency to internationally advanced levels.
The measure signals that in first-tier cities the threshold for adding compute is shifting from 'is there power' to 'is it green power, and is it efficient enough,' with liquid cooling and green-power direct supply becoming rigid accompanying requirements.
Analysts say pricing compute expansion by energy metrics will ripple across China's AI-infrastructure build-out, favoring efficient, low-carbon data-center designs.
Source: Xinhua Finance / Beijing Daily (paraphrased and translated from Chinese official media; reprinted for informational purposes with attribution).
