The desert brings computing power and the scenery becomes smart. The cool breeze, sunshine, and cool climate that once belonged only to the desert are now transformed into dispatchable, tradable, and universally beneficial green productivity, delivering low-cost AI capabilities to thousands of industries in the east. In Zhongwei, Ningxia, a "Ciyuan Factory" based on the resource advantages of the western region is opening up new channels for AI supply and demand in the east and west, turning the desert scenery into intelligent kinetic energy within reach of small and medium-sized enterprises.
初秋的腾格里沙漠边缘，风机缓缓转动。在中国移动(宁夏中卫)数据中心B园区，没有想象中的人声鼎沸，只有冷却系统低沉的风声。在这里，西部的风光资源与冷凉空气，被“炼”成一个个词元(Token)，通过光缆送往东部中小企业的办公桌。
Where electricity prices are low, AI “retail stores” are sprouting up.数据中心是出了名的“耗电大户”，数据中心电力成本占运营成本的50%以上。 Zhongwei relies on Ningxia's "wind, solar, water, and thermal storage" multi-energy complementarity, source-grid-load-storage integration and green electricity direct connection mechanism. The household electricity price is stable at around 0.36 yuan/kWh, which is much lower than in the east. What is saved on electricity prices is the real profit of the enterprise.
For a thousand cabinet-level intelligent computing center, every time the electricity price decreases by 0.1 yuan/kWh, the annual electricity bill may vary by tens of millions of yuan.落到中小企业调用词元上，意味着不用购置GPU服务器、不用自建GPU机房，按量付费，成本还低于自建。西部低廉的绿电成本，最终转化为东部小企业负担得起的AI账单。
Compared with the eastern region where cooling energy consumption is higher in summer, Zhongwei relies on the natural cool breeze of Tengger to dissipate heat for servers.冷凉气候是大自然赋予这里的“黄金禀赋”。 Zhongwei has an average annual temperature of 8.8°C, with dry conditions and little rain. There are more than 280 days of good atmosphere throughout the year. All-natural air cooling or indirect evaporative cooling can be used during most of the period, and there is no need to turn on the compressor for refrigeration during most of the period. In addition, it is located in the geometric center of China's land, with stable geological structure, low electricity prices, natural cold sources, and stable geological conditions. The West is no longer just a storage space for computing equipment, but can produce GPU computing power and large model capabilities at a low cost, and rely on the computing power delay circle to sell AI services across the country.
From renting racks to selling words, small and medium-sized enterprises travel with ease. On September 16, the computing power tasks of the pilot cabinets in Fuzhou and Xiamen, Fujian Province, were dispatched by China Mobile's "Computing Network Brain" and smoothly migrated to Zhongwei across more than 2,000 kilometers in a few minutes.福建午间用电高峰得以减负，宁夏就地消纳午间富余光伏发电，实现“东部减负、西部消纳”。
Relying on the cross-provincial collaboration model of "power grid provides demand, operators undertake, and computing network brain coordinates", Ningxia Mobile builds the western artificial intelligence "Ciyuuan Factory": integrating scattered GPU computing power, large models and platform capabilities, and exporting services through standardized APIs. Enterprises do not need to build their own servers, deploy GPUs, or debug models. They only need to call interfaces to obtain AI capabilities such as text generation, code writing, image understanding, and speech recognition, and measure and settle based on input and output word units.
This year, a large-scale CiYuan factory, which is rare in the country, has settled in Zhongwei, Ningxia, building a development closed loop of "scenery and green power supply - Token large-scale production - AI Token platform operation", forming a cost depression for CiYu supply.
“过去按‘吨’卖算力，现在按‘克’零售。”该公司算力解决方案经理岳圆打了个比方。 In the past, a small and medium-sized enterprise that wanted to build intelligent customer service or AI programming capabilities had to invest millions of yuan in purchasing GPU servers, networking, and tuning. Now, with Ci Yuan Factory, the cost is reduced to a pay-as-you-go bill.程序员每月词元花费仅几十元至两百元，创新门槛被压到“地板价”。
风发电、风制冷、绿电育智能，资源跨域流动、价值跨省共享。 When AI is available on demand like water and electricity, the computing power highlands in the west have become "smart supply stations" for low-cost innovation for small and medium-sized enterprises in the east. China Mobile (Ningxia Zhongwei) data center has built a 10,000-ka level AI training cluster to undertake the task of training and promoting large models across the country, making AI services from "available" to "easy to use and accessible to everyone."
Currently, the national integrated computing power network strategy of “digitizing the east and computing the west” is being advanced in an all-round way. As the core productivity of the development of the digital economy and artificial intelligence industry, computing power has become a key starting point for coordinating regional coordinated development and promoting green and low-carbon transformation.
Zhongwei is accelerating its transformation from a traditional computing power base to a national AI capability output base, allowing desert scenery resources to truly become a new green engine driving the inclusive development of the digital economy.
