Huawei Reveals Advanced AI Data Center Solutions
Berlin, Friday, 16 May 2025.
Huawei has debuted new AI data center solutions that promise to revolutionize computing efficiency and data management, marking a pivotal moment in intelligent computing development.
Revolutionary Market Growth and Challenges
At the Global Data Center Facility Summit held in Dubai on May 13, 2025, Charles Yang, Senior Vice President of Huawei, revealed striking projections for the AI data center industry. The global AI data center capacity is expected to exceed 100 GW by 2028, generating a substantial market opportunity exceeding $600 billion USD in energy infrastructure alone [1]. The industry faces three critical challenges: ensuring greater reliability, accelerating deployment timelines, and managing increased power demands [2].
Strategic Innovation Framework
Huawei has introduced its RASTM framework, emphasizing Reliability, Agility, and Sustainability as fundamental principles for AI data center construction [3]. This announcement comes at a crucial time when intelligent computing centers are experiencing unprecedented growth in deployment demands. The company’s outdoor PowerPOD solution demonstrates this framework in action, featuring a fully decoupled architecture that enables containerized power supply systems for flexible outdoor deployment [1].
Technical Advancements and Market Position
In a significant technological leap, Huawei unveiled the Ascend 920 AI chip on April 6, 2025, featuring a 6nm process node and delivering over 900 teraflops of BF16 performance per card [4]. The company’s AI CloudMatrix CM384 solution, incorporating 384 Ascend 910C processors, achieves an impressive 300 petaflops of BF16 performance [4]. The Ascend 910C, scheduled for mass shipment to Chinese customers from May 2025, delivers approximately 60% of the inference performance of Nvidia’s H100 by combining two 910B processors [4].
Industry Collaboration and Future Outlook
Demonstrating commitment to industry safety standards, Huawei has collaborated with the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and major industry players including Alibaba Cloud, China Mobile Group Design Institute, China Telecom, and China Unicom to publish a comprehensive White Paper on Lithium-ion Battery Applications in Data Centres [1]. This collaborative approach reflects the industry’s move toward standardized safety protocols in advanced computing infrastructure [GPT].