Schneider Electric releases "Collaborative Computing" Insight Report: Breaking through energy challenges in data centers with a three-tier architecture

Schneider Electric released the insight report "Coordinated Computing and Power - Energy Challenges and Responses for Data Centers" during the 2025 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC 2025). In a high electricity consumption scenario, China's data centers may exceed 700 billion kilowatt-hours by 2030, accounting for 5.3% of the country's total electricity consumption; nearly 70% of surveyed companies expect their average annual electricity consumption growth rate to exceed 15% in the next three years, and 61% of surveyed companies plan to build or expand intelligent computing centers in the next three years. The report points out that energy management for data centers will face three challenges: power supply stability, cost control, and carbon emission management. To address this, Schneider Electric's Commercial Value Research Institute proposed a three-layer architecture of "Coordinated Computing and Power" in the report, connecting power supply, computing load, and coordination mechanisms from the bottom up to promote the deep integration of computing resources and power resources