Shanghai synergises computing centres with grid in power infrastructure upgrade

Shanghai has pioneered the synergisation of computing centres with the power grid for peak-load management – a national first – as part of China’s push to enhance computing-grid coordination as its upgrades power infrastructure amid the global Artificial Intelligence race.Led by State Grid’s Shanghai subsidiary, the trial achieved a peak load reduction of 97.8 megawatts within a two-hour window, marking the country’s largest single city-level adjustment of computing power load, according to a report on Wednesday by Jiefang Daily, a Shanghai-based official newspaper.This is equivalent to shutting down the operation of almost 140,000 of Nvidia’s flagship H100 graphics processing units (GPUs) all at once in terms of power capacity. Each unit requires up to 700 watts of power for maximum performance, according to the calculation by the China-morning-post" class="entity-link entity-organization" data-entity-id="12558" data-entity-type="organization">South China Morning Post.