Alibaba Cloud Receives Multiple Honors at the 2023 China Computing Power Conference

Computing power has become a key production factor in the digital‑economy era, enabling breakthroughs in scientific research, smart manufacturing, finance, healthcare, smart cities, and personal services such as smart homes and online education.

At the 2023 China Computing Power Conference held in Yinchuan, Ningxia, jointly organized by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the Ningxia government, Alibaba Cloud was honored with three major awards.

Major Breakthrough – Alibaba Cloud PAI Lingjun Intelligent Computing Service: A cloud‑native, serverless AI computing platform that integrates the PAI machine‑learning platform and the Lingjun intelligent computing cluster, providing one‑stop engineering services for frontier AI applications such as large‑model research, autonomous driving, quantitative finance, and drug discovery.

Best Academic Paper – "Online Job Scheduling Scheme for Low‑Carbon Data Center Operation: An Information‑Energy Nexus Perspective": The paper proposes a scheduling method that reduces data‑center energy‑costs by 37% and carbon‑emission costs by 14% based on real‑world Alibaba Cloud workload data, supporting China’s "East‑Data‑West‑Computing" and carbon‑neutral goals.

Innovation Pioneer Case – Alibaba Cloud & Fudan University CFFF Research Computing Platform: The largest university‑level cloud research platform in China, enabling a 45‑billion‑parameter weather‑forecast model to be trained in one day and produce predictions within three seconds.

Alibaba Cloud also announced a price‑cut initiative covering core products such as Elastic Compute, storage, load balancing, and RDS, with discounts up to 50% to promote computing‑power democratization.

In line with its 2030 carbon‑neutral target, Alibaba Cloud reports 53.9% clean‑energy usage, a PUE of 1.215, and a "5 Greens" plan covering green energy, technology, architecture, operations, and services.

Looking forward, Alibaba Cloud pledges to continue driving innovation, supporting digital‑economy transformation, and delivering cutting‑edge cloud and AI services for a high‑quality, sustainable future.