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国泰海通:智算驱动变革 数据中心行业迎来新一轮黄金发展期
智通财经网·2025-07-17 04:04

Group 1 - The core viewpoint is that leading domestic internet companies in China are expected to maintain high capital expenditure levels over the next three years, driven by AI investments, resulting in at least 7GW of new IT power demand, while existing third-party IDC reserves are less than 5GW, providing significant growth opportunities for related companies [1] - AI has become the main driver for the growth of computing power scale, with China's intelligent computing scale growing over 70% year-on-year, and global data center core IT power demand projected to increase from 49GW in 2023 to 96GW by 2026, with new intelligent computing centers accounting for 85% of the incremental demand [1][2] - ByteDance is leading the demand growth for large data centers, with over 500 projects at various construction stages across China, and third-party IDC orders amounting to approximately 2.5GW, of which ByteDance's demand is about 2GW [2] Group 2 - The domestic data center market is experiencing a recovery in supply and demand, with prices stabilizing, and there is an expectation of price increases as demand continues to grow [3] - The global data center market is expected to achieve a better balance in supply and demand due to the increasing demand for intelligent computing data centers driven by AI, leading to a potential rebound in rental prices [3]