Hong Kong's largest standalone intelligent computing center — China Mobile Global Intelligent Computing Center opens

On March 25th, China Mobile held the opening ceremony of the Global Intelligent Computing Center in Hong Kong under the theme “Intelligent Connectivity, New Journey in Computing.” Vice Chairman of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and former Chief Executive of Hong Kong, Leung Chun-ying, Deputy Director of the Liaison Office of the Central People’s Government in Hong Kong, Sun Shangwu, Deputy Financial Secretary of the Hong Kong SAR Government, Paul Chan Mo-po, and China Mobile Chairman Chen Zhongyue served as the main guests. Over 140 guests, including China Mobile Vice President Li Hui-di, industry representatives, and core partners, attended the opening to witness the official launch of the center.

In his speech, Leung Chun-ying pointed out that at the start of the 14th Five-Year Plan, the unveiling and operation of China Mobile’s Global Intelligent Computing Center in Hong Kong is a result of the country’s new digital infrastructure development and reflects Hong Kong’s role within the national development strategy. Currently, a new wave of technological revolution and industrial transformation is deepening, with artificial intelligence and big data profoundly changing production and daily life. The country has clearly emphasized accelerating the building of a strong network nation and digital China. Hong Kong needs to better integrate into and serve the national development, leveraging its international research environment and top talent. The China Mobile Global Intelligent Computing Center integrates high-performance computing, intelligent processing, and multimodal data fusion, providing low-latency, highly reliable computing power services. It demonstrates China Mobile’s proactive role in supporting national strategies and helping Chinese enterprises go global. The center will connect with multiple national-level computing hubs across the mainland, forming a “Northern Computing, Southern Connection, East-West Integration” pattern, becoming a new landmark for Hong Kong’s technological innovation and a new pillar of the national digital strategy, contributing Hong Kong’s strength to the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

In his speech, Paul Chan Mo-po stated that China Mobile has shown outstanding performance in communication infrastructure, computing facilities, and public services, benefiting Hong Kong and its people. The unveiling of the Global Intelligent Computing Center has profound and positive significance for Hong Kong’s digital economy and AI industry development. He shared key focus areas for Hong Kong’s innovation and technology development: First, the rapid development of the Northern Metropolis. Second, in data centers and computing platforms, China Mobile has built two large data centers in Tseung Kwan O and Fo Tan, with the newly launched Global Intelligent Computing Center becoming one of Hong Kong’s most secure and operationally standard data centers. Third, in AI, the Financial Secretary leads the “AI+ and Industry Development Strategy Committee,” which formulates strategies to drive industrial transformation through AI. Additionally, the SAR government is establishing an AI research institute and increasing funding to promote deep integration of AI across industries. In the future, Hong Kong will continue to leverage the unique “One Country, Two Systems” advantage, actively integrate into the national development strategy, seize the important opportunity presented by the 14th Five-Year Plan to build an international innovation and technology hub, and accelerate the development of innovation and technology.

Chen Zhongyue stated that China Mobile is rooted in Hong Kong, integrated into Hong Kong, and serving Hong Kong. The official launch of the Global Intelligent Computing Center marks an important milestone in China Mobile’s service and global deployment of computing power. The center will serve as a key node in the global computing network, providing green, low-carbon, autonomous, and controllable computing services with ultra-low latency and high reliability for Hong Kong and global clients. Moving forward, China Mobile aims to realize its vision of becoming a “world-class technology service enterprise,” continuously advancing infrastructure connectivity, and fully supporting the development of a world-class Bay Area, injecting digital intelligence into Hong Kong’s prosperity. First, strengthening the digital foundation by establishing Hong Kong as a core node to build a comprehensive global information network that connects locally and worldwide, integrating Hong Kong’s computing power into the national integrated network to support the city’s economic and social development. Second, enriching application scenarios, strengthening the AI+ international ecosystem, and deepening flagship projects in Hong Kong to promote intelligent, green, and integrated development across industries. Third, expanding the industrial ecosystem by leveraging Hong Kong’s unique position as a gateway to the world and its backing from mainland China, relying on China Mobile’s network, computing power, and ecosystem collaboration to help Hong Kong build an international innovation and technology center and continuously enhance its global competitiveness.

Located in Fo Tan, Sha Tin, Hong Kong, the China Mobile Global Intelligent Computing Center is the largest single-scale flagship center in Hong Kong, capable of supporting training and inference of large models with hundreds of billions of parameters. Driven by AI, the center utilizes intelligent scheduling, autonomous inspection by robots and drones, digital twin technology, and more to achieve energy savings, maintenance, and service automation. The completion of the center will significantly enhance Hong Kong’s high-performance computing resources, promote industry-academia-research collaboration, empower the development of Hong Kong’s AI industry, and support the city’s goal of becoming an international innovation and technology hub. Leveraging Hong Kong’s strategic location and China Mobile’s global network resources, the center connects five major land routes between Guangdong and Hong Kong, over 100 submarine and land cables, and more than 440 overseas PoP points, creating an international intelligent computing hub based in Hong Kong, radiating to Asia-Pacific, and connecting globally. It will serve as a bridgehead for China’s AI ecosystem going overseas, providing high-quality intelligent computing services to global clients.

During the opening ceremony, guests visited the exhibition hall of the Global Intelligent Computing Center. The exhibition showcased integrated one-stop services, AI+ industry solutions across eight sectors, the digital foundation of global cloud intelligence, and a matrix of AI+ smart service capabilities, demonstrating full-chain technological strength to empower digital upgrades across industries worldwide.

In the future, China Mobile will use the Global Intelligent Computing Center as a key hub to continuously optimize technological innovation and ecological cooperation, promote deep integration of intelligent computing and the digital industry, and expand its global intelligent computing network layout, providing professional computing power services and solutions for Hong Kong and the global digital economy.