RIDING THE CLOUD.

They will constitute the backbone of a computing network that integrates data centers, cloud computing and big data. According to the Open Data Center Committee, a Beijing-based nonprofit organization formed by enterprises and institutions related to the data center industry, data centers across China consumed 93.9 billion kWh of electricity in 2020. COVER STORY A staff member works at a data center of telecom giant China Unicom in Zhongwei, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, on March 1 Twenty km south of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region's capital, Hohhot, the grassland is surging with computer power. [Extracted from the article]