China News Service, Beijing, May 26 (Reporter Wang Mengyao) The "China "Artificial Intelligence +" Energy Development Report 2026" organized by the National Energy Administration of China was officially released on the 26th. This is the first annual report in China's energy field focusing on the integrated development of artificial intelligence and energy.
The report systematically reviews the progress of the integration of artificial intelligence and energy at home and abroad, conducts an in-depth study and judgment of China’s “artificial intelligence +” energy development situation, and looks forward to the key directions in the next stage.
The report stated that "artificial intelligence +" energy has become an important strategic direction for the world's major countries to seize the initiative in future development. The rapid development of artificial intelligence is driving the continued growth of electricity demand for global computing facilities. The International Energy Agency predicts that by 2030, global data center electricity consumption will nearly double compared to 2025.
In terms of green and low-carbon transformation of computing facilities and computing and electricity collaboration, by 2025, China has built 42 10,000-ka level intelligent computing clusters, and the total power consumption of national computing centers will reach 170 billion kilowatt hours. The computing power consumption of the eight hub nodes of the national integrated computing power network has become the main source of growth. The average growth rate in the past three years is approximately 39.5%, which is much higher than the average growth rate of electricity consumption in the entire society. Among them, the average growth rate of electricity consumption in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei hub node and Inner Mongolia hub node in the past three years has reached 33.3% and 66.5% respectively, reflecting the accelerated concentration of computing power resources in key hubs and energy resource-rich areas. At the same time, the target requirement of green electricity accounting for more than 80% of the newly built data centers in the national computing power hub nodes is being accelerated through various methods such as green electricity trading, green electricity direct connection, inter-provincial and cross-regional transactions, and integration of source, network, load and storage.
