In the future, the "heart" AI empowerment of urban intelligent computing will be highlighted.

From the perspective of economic development, cities need to grow into AI in the future. AI empowerment can truly transform traditional industries from digital to intelligent, thus creating greater value. In the future, intelligent computing will become the basic unit of life in the city like sunshine, air and water. The future urban development needs a "heart" that can only calculate.

At the Shanghai branch of the 2020 Global Smart City Conference, representatives from relevant enterprises and institutions in smart cities in Shanghai, Guangdong and other provinces and cities discussed innovative ideas of future cities around topics such as smart cities, smart travel and digital transformation. Among them, the Ministry of Information Technology of the National Information Center and the Ministry of Industrial Development jointly issued the Guide to the Planning and Construction of Intelligent Computing Centers, which clarified the role of intelligent computing centers and gave targeted suggestions for local governments on how to locate, plan and build them.

Some research institutions predict that artificial intelligence will bring 0.8 to 1.4 percentage points of GDP growth to China's economy every year. In the future, artificial intelligence computing will account for more than 80% of computing demand. Intelligent computing center is different from traditional data center. It not only "stores data", but more importantly "uses data" efficiently. "The core of a smart city is data, but if big data is not handled effectively, it will become a burden. With the help of intelligent computing centers, we can make data meaningful and valuable through the production, aggregation, scheduling and release of computing power, thus providing efficient support for industrial development and urban governance. "

This is not icing on the cake. Experts say that the intelligent computing center will become the standard public infrastructure for the construction of smart cities in the future, and the intelligent computing capacity will be as important as the electricity in the industrial age. Whether it is the digitalization and intelligent transformation and upgrading of traditional industries or the innovation and efficiency of urban governance, we need to rely on "heart". The construction of intelligent computing center has the nature of public infrastructure and needs to be reasonable at the regional or national level.

Building an intelligent computing center is only the first step of intelligent transformation. In the future, we need the cooperation of the government and industry, and constantly open up the scenes and ecology in the fields of smart city, smart manufacturing, smart medical care and smart agriculture, so that intelligent computing centers can play a key role.