Recently, Damo Technology and Shanghai Pudong Environmental Protection Energy Development Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “Pudong Environmental Protection Energy”) officially signed a strategic cooperation agreement. The two parties will make in-depth deployments across four key areas: data center energy-efficiency optimization and intelligent management and control, market-based electricity operations, the development of intelligent computing-electricity coordination systems, and the joint building of a collaborative ecosystem. Together, they will promote the implementation of computing-electricity coordination use cases and the growth of related industries.

As the first tangible outcome of this strategic partnership, Damo Technology has built a computing-electricity coordination platform for the Liming Intelligent Computing Center in the Pudong New Area, a national-level computing-electricity coordination pilot, quickly turning the partnership's strategic plans into practical results.

Comprehensive Strategic Cooperation to Jointly Advance the Computing-Electricity Coordination Industry

Pudong Environmental Protection Energy is a wholly state-owned enterprise funded by Shanghai Pudong Development Group and serves as the group's core platform for the green, low-carbon, and computing power services industries. With a strong focus on environmental protection and new energy, it has established a full-chain energy operating model covering “generation–energy storage–power distribution–energy consumption–trading,” making it an important platform for advancing computing-electricity coordination and the green computing power industry in the Pudong New Area.

As a core software and full-lifecycle value operations service provider in the field of computing-electricity coordination, Damo Technology uses its proprietary industry-specific energy large model and agent cluster as its technological foundation. It provides full-lifecycle services spanning project consulting and planning, integration and application of AI products for computing-electricity coordination, and integrated maintenance and operations.

Under the agreement, the two parties will leverage their respective strengths and carry out comprehensive strategic cooperation in phases:

Data Center Energy-Efficiency Optimization and Intelligent Management and Control: Jointly establish a safe, reliable, green, efficient, and intelligently controllable data center energy operating system; build integrated intelligent energy management and dispatch capabilities; optimize cooling strategies; strengthen safety assurance mechanisms; and achieve visualized energy use and digitalized operations.

Market-Based Electricity Operations and Decision Support: Jointly advance the development of virtual power plant systems, resource aggregation, platform operations, and market-based trading; provide end-to-end technological support through trading strategy optimization, market bidding support, electricity price forecasting, and decision support; fully unlock the value of energy assets; and increase market-based value-added revenue.

Intelligent Computing-Electricity Coordination System and General-Purpose Market Platform: Leveraging Damo Technology's intelligent algorithms and energy large model, jointly build an integrated intelligent dispatch system for computing, electricity, and energy-consumption resources; create a standardized, reusable platform for the industry; and develop replicable and scalable benchmark computing-electricity coordination solutions.

Deep Computing-Electricity Coordination Ecosystem and Joint Capability Development: Explore innovative models for deep resource coordination among data centers; continue technology reserves and solution research; expand the depth and breadth of strategic cooperation; and build a sustainable computing-electricity coordination industrial ecosystem.

Liming Intelligent Computing Center Launches Computing-Electricity Coordination Platform Development

As the first implementation project under the strategic partnership, development of the computing-electricity coordination platform at the Liming Intelligent Computing Center has officially been launched.

The Liming Intelligent Computing Center is the first 10,000-card computing cluster in the northern part of Pudong, Shanghai, and is also a national-level computing-electricity coordination pilot project. With a total designed power capacity of 18 megawatts, the project innovatively employs integrated technologies including direct supply of biomass-generated green electricity, waste-heat cooling, and cascade utilization of waste cold from LNG phase changes, making it a benchmark green intelligent computing center with an ultra-low PUE.

The construction of this computing-power and electricity coordination platform covers multiple modules, including platform feature development, data collection and integration, implementation and deployment, and operational training. It will deliver core capabilities for intelligent computing centers, including resource monitoring, operational analysis, load forecasting, coordinated scheduling, and system management.

Upon completion, the platform will enable end-to-end digital management of energy use across the park, aggregated monitoring of flexible resources such as thermal energy storage tanks, and support for coordinated scheduling strategies for cooling supply systems. While ensuring the safe and stable operation of the park, it will continuously improve PUE and energy consumption management, laying a solid technological foundation for future participation in electricity trading, power ancillary services, and other market-oriented businesses.

Demonstration and Leadership: Accelerating the Evolution of Urban Intelligent Computing Centers in Eastern China toward E-AIDC

Currently, urban intelligent computing centers in eastern China generally face practical challenges such as grid capacity constraints and tightening energy consumption quotas. Computing-power and electricity coordination has shifted from a cost-optimization option to a core pathway for high-quality industrial development.

This strategic collaboration between Damou Technology and Pudong Environmental Energy represents a deep partnership between a state-owned energy operations platform and an AI technology company. Taking the Liming Intelligent Computing Center as its starting point for practical implementation, the two parties will deeply integrate energy engineering operations expertise with AI-based energy-saving and intelligent control technologies, while exploring a replicable and scalable operating model for computing-power and electricity coordination at urban intelligent computing centers.

This collaboration will upgrade intelligent computing centers from traditional passive electricity loads into active energy operation nodes capable of regulation, trading, and value creation. It will provide a demonstration model for the large-scale implementation of computing-power and electricity coordination at urban intelligent computing centers in eastern China, and help drive the E-AIDC energy-driven intelligent computing center paradigm from concept into broader industrial practice.

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