According to the “China Electric Power Industry Annual Development Report 2026” released by the China Electric Power Enterprise Federation on the 14th, the electricity consumption of the entire country is expected to increase by 5%-6% year-on-year in 2026, adding about 400 million kilowatts of new power generation. New energy sources are still the main source of new power installations, adding about 100 million kilowatts of conventional power, which is basically the same as the maximum load increase. “The end of computing power is electricity. Promoting computer collaboration is an inevitable way for China to gain a competitive advantage in the computing power industry in the next step.” Zhang Lin, director of the Planning and Development Department of the China Telecommunication Union, said that during the “15th Five-Year Plan” period, the country's computing power consumption is expected to increase by more than 100 billion kilowatt-hours per year, and is expected to reach 800 billion kilowatt-hours by 2030, accounting for about 6% of the entire society's electricity consumption. Zhang Lin said that in the future, we should coordinate the allocation of energy resources and the construction of computing power facilities in accordance with the idea of “using electricity to force calculation and promote electricity”, and promote collaboration in computing and electricity in multiple dimensions. In terms of planning and layout, for computing power facilities in the western region, coordinate the layout of national computing power hubs and large-scale new energy base plans to promote collaborative construction of computing power facilities and power facilities; for computing power facilities in the eastern region, promote collaborative planning of distributed computing power, distributed power supplies, microgrids, and virtual power plants to respond to computing power needs nearby.

According to the “China Electric Power Industry Annual Development Report 2026” released by the China Electric Power Enterprise Federation on the 14th, the electricity consumption of the entire country is expected to increase by 5%-6% year-on-year in 2026, adding about 400 million kilowatts of new power generation. New energy sources are still the main source of new power installations, adding about 100 million kilowatts of conventional power, which is basically the same as the maximum load increase. “The end of computing power is electricity. Promoting computer collaboration is an inevitable way for China to gain a competitive advantage in the computing power industry in the next step.” Zhang Lin, director of the Planning and Development Department of the China Telecommunication Union, said that during the “15th Five-Year Plan” period, the country's computing power consumption is expected to increase by more than 100 billion kilowatt-hours per year, and is expected to reach 800 billion kilowatt-hours by 2030, accounting for about 6% of the entire society's electricity consumption. Zhang Lin said that in the future, we should coordinate the allocation of energy resources and the construction of computing power facilities in accordance with the idea of “using electricity to force calculation and promote electricity”, and promote collaboration in computing and electricity in multiple dimensions. In terms of planning and layout, for computing power facilities in the western region, coordinate the layout of national computing power hubs and large-scale new energy base plans to promote collaborative construction of computing power facilities and power facilities; for computing power facilities in the eastern region, promote collaborative planning of distributed computing power, distributed power sources, microgrids, and virtual power plants to respond to computing power needs nearby.