China News Service, Wuhan, October 29 (Lu Qi, Peng Huan, Zhang Shiyu) The three-day 2026 International (Wuhan) Intelligent Construction Industry Expo ended on the 29th, and the construction of intelligent computing data centers became the focus of the conference. Experts and scholars at home and abroad point out that artificial intelligence is profoundly reshaping the global industrial landscape, and computing power has become the core support for the development of the digital economy. As a new type of computing power infrastructure, intelligent computing centers are accelerating their evolution towards high density, high energy efficiency, and greenness, putting forward higher requirements for engineering construction and full-chain service capabilities. The entire industry is in urgent need of coordinated development.
With the theme of "Intelligent Manufacturing Leads, Gathering Power to Strengthen the Chain", this expo attracted the participation of universities, institutions, construction companies, Internet and technology companies from more than 10 countries and regions around the world. More than 200 units participated in the exhibition with more than 1,400 innovative results, displaying and releasing advanced results of the intelligent construction industry chain. The 2026 China AIDC Industry Development Conference will be held at the same time to build an exchange platform for government, industry, academia, and research to help coordinate the ecological development of the intelligent computing industry.
The picture shows the scene of the 2026 China AIDC Industry Development Conference. Photo provided by the organizer
Long Ning, member of the party group and deputy director of the Hubei Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, said that the intelligent computing center supports artificial intelligence, smart construction and urban governance. Hubei took the lead in launching a special AI action plan in the field of housing and construction, laying out 14 types of scenarios; the large-scale intelligent construction model was selected into the first batch of national iconic scenes, BIM+A I two-wheel drive, AI monitoring of more than 1,300 construction sites, BIM docking with CIM to form the "Hubei model". We look forward to the in-depth docking of housing construction and AIDC, allowing computing power to find scenarios and verify computing power, jointly build a "computing power + construction" integrated ecology, and promote standardization and collaboration between government, industry, academia, and research.
Liu Fuwei, a member of the Party Leadership Group and Deputy Director of the Hubei Provincial Data Bureau, said that computing power is a strategic resource in the era of digital economy. Hubei's total computing power has exceeded 20,000P, and intelligent computing accounts for more than 70%, establishing an integrated cloud-edge-device system. Hubei focuses on facility construction, project competition, and policy supply: it reserves 113 computing power network projects with a total investment of more than 100 million yuan, with a total investment of 231.9 billion yuan; the computing power coupon subsidy is increased to 30%, with a maximum of 3 million yuan, which will jointly build an industrial ecology and help the high-quality development of Hubei's computing power industry.
Yu Jing, deputy director of the Multi-Country Project Office of the Asia-Pacific Regional Office of UN-Habitat, believes that intelligent computing centers are becoming a new infrastructure that couples energy, computing power and urban governance, and need to be planned together with space, energy and public services. Currently, the Asia-Pacific region is experiencing active urbanization, but it is also facing increased energy consumption and a digital divide. UN-Habitat places smart cities in an important position in Asia-Pacific cooperation and focuses on promoting three things: pragmatic cooperation with Chinese cities and institutions to explore sustainable planning paths; promoting pilot smart city guidelines to integrate sustainable development into urban renewal; and releasing international guidelines for people-centered smart cities to provide reference for digital transformation. The next step will be to focus on green and low-carbon, digital inclusion, and experience sharing, and jointly promote the sustainable development of Asia-Pacific cities.
The picture shows the Tiangong Yuanshu cold station shelter independently developed and produced by China Construction Third Engineering Group Co., Ltd. Photo provided by the organizer
Liu Peng, deputy secretary of the party committee and general manager of China Construction Third Engineering Bureau Group Co., Ltd., said that the bureau has actively integrated into the country's "six networks" modern infrastructure system. Since the "14th Five-Year Plan", it has achieved full coverage of the country's eight major computing power hubs. It has built more than 200 data centers with a contract value of more than 100 billion yuan, an IT load of more than 3GW, and has undertaken 45 overseas computing power projects with a contract value of more than 30 billion yuan. It has optimized the construction model to ensure the rapid commissioning of computing power. In view of the tight construction cycle and high system integration of the intelligent computing center, the bureau promotes standardized design, modular construction, and parallel construction, strengthens all-professional collaborative work, improves efficiency with integrated construction organization, and assists the rapid implementation of computing infrastructure with efficient construction; adheres to green empowerment and leads the development of low-carbon computing power. Closely following the "dual carbon" requirements, BIM, digital twins, and full life cycle carbon control are integrated into the entire construction process, and energy-saving technologies such as natural cooling, high-efficiency cold stations, and waste heat recovery are comprehensively used to create ultra-low PUE benchmark projects. It participated in the preparation of the first national standard for computing facilities in China, "Computing Facilities Engineering Technical Standards," and promoted green computing from demonstration projects to common industry standards.
During the keynote speech session, many industry experts shared their views on the implementation of the intelligent computing industry, computing infrastructure and high-density cooling solutions. Among them, Volcano Engine introduced that the veStack intelligent computing platform has made Byte's AI implementation experience into a standardized product to help enterprises deal with the problem of Agent implementation from a single point to full-link collaboration; Guangdong Telecom Planning and Design Institute proposed to rely on the computing power network base to take the green, low-carbon, computing and electricity collaboration route, and cooperate with the national integrated computing power dispatching to create high-quality intelligent computing Center; Green Cloud Chart mentioned that the power consumption of AI hardware has skyrocketed, and air cooling has approached the upper limit. It compared the three types of liquid cooling technologies, cold plate, immersion, and spray, and provided an evaluation model to select a suitable liquid cooling solution; Huawei Digital Energy pointed out that the high density of AI computing power, new energy grid connection, and business load fluctuations put pressure on the stable operation of intelligent computing centers, and shared corresponding solutions.
