中国在上海近海启动了全球首个由海上风能驱动的海底数据中心（UDC），这标志著 HiCloud Technology 与中国交通建设的重大合作。该项目投资达 16 亿元人民币（约 2.36 亿美元，折合 1.6 billion yuan），初始容量为 24 百万瓦（24 megawatts）。该设施淹没在临港特别行政区 10 公尺（10 meters）深处，利用海水进行自然冷却，将基础设施冷却能耗降低至 10% 以下，而传统陆地数据中心通常需要 40% 至 50% 的冷却能耗。
该设施运行的能源使用效率（PUE）不超过 1.15，达到业界领先水平，其中 1.0 为理论最大值。继 HiCloud Technology 于 2023 年在海南推出首个商用海底数据中心后，此次的上海项目是首个由海上风电驱动的项目。根据政府数据，该项目使用超过 95% 的绿色电力，与陆地设施相比，整体能耗降低了 22.8%，水资源消耗减少了 100%，土地占用减少了 90% 以上。这解决了人工智慧（AI）的巨大能源需求，目前全球 90% 的专业数据中心都集中在美国和中国。
为了支持人工智慧和清洁能源转型，北京颁布了新的能源法，优先发展可再生能源并推广氢能，并自 2025 年 6 月起改革其电力市场，强制太阳能和风能进行市场化交易。虽然美国缩减了与能源转型相关的投资，但正如 Fernanda González 所报导，中国部署海底数据中心代表了迈向能源自给自足的战略举措，利用先进材料和绿色技术来确保工业自主，并在引领全球人工智慧基础设施竞争中取得领先地位。
China has launched the world's first offshore wind-powered underwater data center (UDC) near Shanghai, marking a major collaboration between HiCloud Technology and China Communications Construction. The project involved an investment of 1.6 billion yuan (approximately $236 million) and has an initial capacity of 24 megawatts. Submerged at a depth of 10 meters in the Lin-gang Special Zone, the facility utilizes seawater for natural cooling, which reduces infrastructure cooling energy consumption to under 10 percent, compared to the 40 to 50 percent typically required by traditional onshore data centers.
The facility operates at a state-of-the-art power-usage effectiveness (PUE) of no more than 1.15, where 1.0 is the theoretical maximum. Following HiCloud's first commercial UDC in Hainan in 2023, this Shanghai project is the first powered by offshore wind. According to government data, it uses over 95 percent green electricity, reducing overall energy consumption by 22.8 percent, water usage by 100 percent, and land usage by more than 90 percent compared to onshore facilities. This addresses the immense energy needs of artificial intelligence (AI), where 90 percent of specialized data centers are concentrated in the US and China.
To support AI and clean energy transition, Beijing enacted a new energy law prioritizing renewables and hydrogen, and reformed its electricity market as of June 2025 to mandate market-based trading for solar and wind power. While the US has scaled back energy transition investments, China's UDC deployment, reported by Fernanda González, represents a strategic move toward energy self-sufficiency, using advanced materials and green technology to secure industrial autonomy and lead the global AI infrastructure race.