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The flagship... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/china-wants-its-green-power-wired-straight-into-the-data-centre-nlmxnwf5u og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/nlmxnWf5U.png og:image:alt: China wants its green power wired straight into the data centre og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # China wants its green power wired straight into the data centre **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary China is pushing its data centre industry to connect directly to renewable energy sources rather than drawing from a coal-heavy public grid. The flagship project is a 500MW solar farm in Ningxia's Zhongwei desert, commissioned by China Datang Corp, which uses dedicated 110kV lines to supply a data centre cluster — described as the country's first large-scale direct green-power supply for computing. The full first phase pairs the solar array with a 1.5GW wind farm and storage, targeting 4.3 TWh of annual generation against a projected 2.29 TWh data centre demand. The initiative is part of Beijing's 'east data, west computing' strategy and a national goal to source roughly 80% of AI data centre power from renewables by 2030, up from about 10% in 2023. Significant challenges remain, including curtailment, grid bottlenecks, and intermittency, with the wind component still under construction and due in September. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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