Power-compute synergy has moved from a technical topic to strategic infrastructure: China's 2026 Government Work Report folded it into the national new-infrastructure program, according to an article by China Southern Grid's digital grid research institute carried by Tencent News. The grid operator is now exporting its dispatch capability to the computing network.

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1. From three "watts" to four "coordinations"

In 2024 the company set out three directions: ample watts supporting scale bits, efficient watts aiding energy-efficient bits, and clean watts enabling green bits, executed through coordinated planning, construction, dispatch and trading. In short, where computing is built, when it runs and what power it uses must all stay in step with grid operations.

2. Three bottlenecks, one platform

The industry faces mismatched power-compute resources, fragmented operations and poor price transmission. The grid's answer pairs top-level design with a platform: three core grid-level nodes including Gui'an, nearly 200 edge nodes across five southern provinces, and "multi-station合一" designs that merge substations with data centers, storage and charging facilities. Its first-of-its-kind electricity-carbon-compute platform matches workloads to optimal nodes using price signals, green-power ratios and compute performance, with minute-level green-power response. In one pilot, a Suzhou user's training job was migrated to the Gui'an data center, running 108 hours with compute costs down 10%.

3. Data centers become grid resources

International practice points the same way: California requires new data centers to file power-load reports, and EU rules mandate PUE and WUE disclosure. Google, Microsoft and Amazon are turning data centers from pure consumers into flexible grid resources that shed non-critical load at peaks. For energy-sector customers, this two-way AI integration creates new demand in load forecasting, dispatch optimization and equipment maintenance. NineZenith's industry LLM practice in energy scenarios maps directly onto those needs.

(Compiled from public reports including a signed article by China Southern Grid's digital grid research institute via Tencent News)