The world's biggest data exchange center is a vast 645,000-square-meter data facility between China and its South Asian neighbour.
The pilot project was launched on Sunday, the Chinese news agency Xinhua announced that the cloud and data center located in the capital, Lhasa, plateau, founded by the privately-held Company Ningsuan Technologies.
In one of its most important regions for national security, the Chinese Government has taken up demand from many Tibetans for more religious freedom and human rights.
The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), the Beijing global ambition in infrastructure projects, is now a connecting plateau for China to South Asia. Ningsuan, Tibet 's data control center company in Peking and research teams in Nanjing, is committed to expanding trade and investment activity between China and India, Nepal , Bangladesh and other BRI nations.
In a previous media interview, Hu Xiao, General Manager of Ningsuan, has argued that robust IT infrastructure in the area will help data transmission.
While hot dates and spotty power supply in certain areas of South Asia incur greater costs for running data centres, the temperate climate and the low average temperature of Tibet, just like the more established data hub in Gizhou province, are natural data have, making them ideal for maintaining servers cool.
The construction of the Datacenter in Lhasa was started in 2017, with an investment of almost 12 trillion yuan, or $1,69 billion, scheduled for completion around 2025 and 2026. The cloud facility generates an annual revenue of 10 billion yuan when it is fully in operation.
In the game, Alibaba also has skin. The Chinese e-commerce giant, which has a growing cloud business, signed an accord (in Chinese) with Ningsuan to supply Tibetan industry with cloud services covering power, finance, domestic security, governance, public security and cyberspace.
