On May 26, Tang Daosheng, president of Tencent Cloud and Smart Industry Group, announced that Tencent will invest 500 billion in the next five years for the further layout of new infrastructure.
According to reports, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, blockchain, servers, large data centers, supercomputing centers, IoT operating systems, 5G networks, audio and video communications Network security, quantum computing, etc. will all be Tencent’s key investment areas. Among them, in terms of data centers, Tencent will successively build multiple large-scale data centers with a scale of one million servers across the country.
At the same time, Tencent will also focus on the construction of Yunqi Industrial Base, Industrial Internet Base, Innovation Center, Industrial Park, etc. in accordance with the needs of industrial technology innovation. In addition, Tencent will fully mobilize internal top scientific research experts and laboratory resources, and will actively cooperate with top universities at home and abroad to build a scientific research platform, strengthen industrial research and talent training, invest in major scientific and technological breakthroughs, and actively participate in the formulation of industry standards.
Tang Daosheng said, “Taking the new infrastructure investment as an opportunity, online and offline enterprises, government departments, research institutes, public welfare institutions and users will build a digital ecological community Promote the development of the Industrial Internet into a fast lane. We believe that accelerating the new infrastructure will help to achieve a closer connection between the supply side and the demand side of the digital economy, provide a strong guarantee for the development of the Industrial Internet, and achieve high-quality economic development. “