Tesla will support China’s ongoing expansion of massive computing power through its megapack energy storage.
According to the World Digital Economy 2024, China’s current total processing power is 230 exaflops.
The country has aggressive plans to increase its computing power to 300 exaflops by the end of next year.
That computing power requires a lot of power and energy, which is where Tesla comes in.
Yovole Network, a Shanghai-based cloud computing data center service provider, partnered with Tesla earlier this year, according to a new official government announcement.
Yan Gang, technical director at Yovole Network, said the company meets its electricity needs in a variety of ways, including solar, hydrogen, and now Tesla Megapacks.
Our Intelligent Computing Center uses a combined cooling, heating and power system that uses hydrogen energy, solar photovoltaic, indirect evaporative cooling and liquid cooling technologies. In April, we partnered with Tesla to apply their Megapack energy storage technology to our Intelligent Computing Center.
Tesla Megapack provides energy storage capacity, enabling companies to make better use of renewable energy generation.
It is unclear on what scale Yovole plans to deploy Megapacks, but the company revealed plans for 8MWh of energy capacity for its Lingang Youfu Cloud Industrial Innovation Base Energy Storage Project (Phase I) earlier this year.
It’s only a few megapacks, but if the project is successful, it could be replicated.
Tesla recently revealed that it installed a record amount of energy storage capacity in the last quarter: 9.4GWh.
The company is building a new megafactory in Shanghai to manufacture Megapacks locally.
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