Tianfeng Securities·2025-04-11 12:23Investment Rating - The industry rating is "Outperform the Market" (maintained) [4] Core Insights - Domestic computing power demand is surging, with a focus on computing power leasing and AI infrastructure investment opportunities [1][3] - The scale of domestic intelligent computing power is expected to grow significantly, from 259.9 EFLOPS in 2022 to 1117.4 EFLOPS by 2027, representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 33.9% [1][14] - The "East Data West Computing" project is accelerating the nationwide layout of computing power networks, with over 250 intelligent computing centers built or under construction as of mid-2024 [1][17] Summary by Sections 1. AI Applications Driving Demand for Computing Facilities - The demand for AI servers is rapidly increasing, with the market size expected to grow from 14.9 billion RMB in 2020 to 143.3 billion RMB by 2028 [10][14] - The cloud computing market reached 616.5 billion RMB in 2023, with a year-on-year growth of 35.5% [10] - Major cloud service providers hold 71.5% of the public cloud market share in China [10] 2. Scarcity of High-End Computing Resources and High Returns from Leasing - Computing power leasing is driven by a shortage of intelligent computing resources, particularly AI chips like GPUs [2][29] - A server equipped with 8 H100 GPUs can yield a net profit margin of 32% to 37% over five years, with a payback period of around three years [2][33] - Recommended stocks in the computing power leasing sector include Hainan Huatie and Gan Consulting, with a focus on investment opportunities in AI infrastructure [2][40] 3. Surge in Demand for Intelligent Computing Centers - The investment scale in the intelligent computing center sector reached 87.9 billion RMB in 2023, a year-on-year increase of over 90% [3][42] - The market size for intelligent computing centers is projected to exceed 288.6 billion RMB by 2028, with a CAGR of 26.8% from 2023 to 2028 [3][42] - The operational model of data centers is primarily divided into retail and wholesale types, with significant investments in AI-driven data centers [3][45]