—Leading AI DC Innovation, Huawei Held Its First Data Center Innovation Summit
[Shanghai, China, September 19, 2025] Huawei held its first Data Center Innovation Summit themed Leading AI DC Innovation for an Intelligent Future during HUAWEI CONNECT 2025. The summit gathered more than 700 industry leaders and experts worldwide to explore the high-quality construction and sustainable development of data center (DC) infrastructure. During the summit, Huawei released a range of innovations and new solutions in DCs in collaboration with its customers and partners, aiming to build a solid compute backbone for the intelligent world.
Huawei introduces the AI DC for a future of infrastructure with superior compute efficiency, data-AI convergence, as well as resilience and reliability
Michael Ma, Vice President of Huawei and President of Huawei’s ICT Product Portfolio Mgmt & Solutions Dept
Michael Ma, Vice President of Huawei and President of Huawei’s ICT Product Portfolio Mgmt & Solutions Dept, emphasized in his keynote speech Leading AI DC Innovation for an Intelligent Future that DCs are now at a turning point to become AI DCs. He stated that infrastructure with superior compute efficiency, data-AI convergence, as well as resilience and reliability is crucial for creating high-quality AI DCs. Committed to innovation in foundational technology, Huawei has developed products and solutions by focusing on six key areas: large-scale compute clusters, agile compute resource pools, vector databases, AI data lakes, multi-site active-active architectures, and elastic facilities, to support customers in building better AI DCs more efficiently.
Systematic innovation across compute, network, storage, and cloud to build AI DC infrastructure with superior compute efficiency
Ted Jiang, Vice President of Huawei Computing Product Line
Ted Jiang, Vice President of Huawei Computing Product Line, said that Huawei meets AI training and inference demands using the strengths in its ICT product portfolio. Its innovative ” Unified Bus (UB) SuperPoD architecture + System engineering collaboration”, as well as synergy across compute, storage, and management significantly boost compute efficiency. The ultimate goal is to create a compute backbone with a large scale, high utilization, high availability, and low latency to accelerate the implementation of AI in enterprises.
Arthur Wang, Vice President of Huawei Data Communication Product Line
In his keynote, Arthur Wang noted that the rapid iteration of AI technologies and the continuous evolution of cloud based architectures are driving data center networks to a critical inflection point. In response, Huawei has launched the AI era ready Xinghe AI Fabric 2.0 solution, built on a three layer architecture comprising AI Brain, AI Connectivity, and AI Network Elements. The solution integrates the AI network agent (NetMaster), StarryWing Digital Map (three level automation), Xinghuan training + Xingzhi inference scheduling engine, and Rock Solid Architecture, creating always on data center networks with full computing power.
Joint release of the Intelligent Computing Network (AI Fabric 2.0) Research Report
Huawei, together with the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT), Thailand’s KBTG, and Nigeria’s Fidelity, jointly released the Intelligent Computing Network (AI Fabric 2.0) Research Report.
Jarung Kiatsupapong, Vice Chairman and CIO of KBTG
Jarung Kiatsupapong, Vice Chairman and CIO of Thailand’s KBTG, noted that under its strategy for ultra resilience and multi vendor collaboration, KBTG has partnered with Huawei on dual plane data center construction, leveraging Huawei’s open and compatible solutions to build an active active architecture with existing networks, enabling rapid service switchover and continuous availability.
AI Data Lake Solution Powers Intelligent Transformation Across Industries
Diego Xiao, Vice President of Huawei Data Storage Product Line
Diego Xiao, Vice President of Huawei Data Storage Product Line, highlighted that in the AI era, enterprises have an even more urgent need for efficient processing of mass data, and consequently building an AI data lake has become essential. In response, Huawei launched an AI data lake solution that integrates all-flash data storage, the OceanCyber data resilience solution, and DME (Omni-Dataverse) unified data space—delivering data acceleration, data resilience, and intelligent data management to power intelligent transformation across industries.
Joint release of the upgraded AI Data Lake Solution and new products
At the summit, Huawei, together with Cineca and Yazhouwan National Laboratory, launched the next-gen AI data lake solution and a series of new products.
Smart City Data Center Showcase unveiled to set an example for AI DC construction
Joint release of the Smart City Data Center Showcase (Shenzhen City Big Data Center)
Sun Fei, Deputy Director of Shenzhen Big Data Resource Management Center, unveiled the Smart City Data Center Showcase (Shenzhen City Big Data Center) together with other representatives from Huawei.
Shenzhen Big Data Resource Management Center has partnered up with Huawei to create a digital foundation with one base, one network, and one cloud for the city. This provides solid support for Shenzhen to accelerate the construction of a digital government and grow into an international smart city. The foundation now holds more than 100 AI applications and 1,300 service systems. It supports the cloud adoption of over 70 organizations, serving over 18 million residents. It empowers digital government initiatives like one network for all public services, intelligent city governance, and unified government collaboration to enhance public services and enterprise support.
An intelligent future is within reach. Looking ahead, Huawei remains committed to working with global customers and partners to drive continuous innovation in AI DC infrastructure, building a solid compute backbone for the intelligent world.