Chindata Group CEO Mr Wu Huapeng discusses how the company’ s innovative approach is spearheading the convergence of AI and sustainability
CHINDATA GROUP
Chindata Group CEO Mr Wu Huapeng discusses how the company’ s innovative approach is spearheading the convergence of AI and sustainability
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We’ re living through two historic revolutions,” says CEO of Chindata Group Mr Wu Huapeng.“ One in renewable energy and the other in AI. The digital infrastructure industry sits precisely at the intersection of these forces, converting electrical power into the digital processing capacity that drives AI and modern life.”
Few countries can match China for the sheer scale of technological innovation needed to drive this kind of transformation. From the explosive growth of the nation’ s mobile internet industry in the late 2000s – a period that saw surging demand for hyperscale data centres and high-quality digital infrastructure – to the recent rush of Gen AI adoption, China and its industries have always been at the forefront.
But this pace of change, particularly more recently with the rapid scaling of AI, brings its own issues, says Mr Wu:“ It poses extreme challenges in terms of computing density, thermal management and power supply. This is driving data centres to evolve from general-purpose internet data centres( IDCs) into AI-optimised or AI-ready data centres( AIDCs).
54 December 2025