Overview of the “Green Computing Technology White Paper”

The document introduces the "Green Computing Technology White Paper" launched at the ODCC winter plenary, aiming to map the innovation landscape of green computing and promote high‑quality, low‑carbon development of China’s computing industry.

It defines green computing as treating environmental resources as core production factors, greening the production process, and ultimately greening application outcomes, and identifies its global, pioneering, and long‑term characteristics across four development phases: initial, start‑up, growth, and mature.

Technical innovation is highlighted as the foundation of computing development: green technologies for computing facilities focus on power supply, cooling, and energy storage; green equipment targets efficient servers, advanced storage, and lossless networking; green platforms emphasize optimized resource scheduling, intelligent product development, and green monitoring and evaluation.

The paper stresses that computing empowerment—using computing power to drive production transformation and digitalization—must also be green, enabling users to improve efficiency while reducing carbon emissions, thereby supporting high‑quality economic and societal development.

Finally, it outlines challenges and proposes recommendations: strengthen policy support and standards, build a robust green energy foundation, advance green equipment innovation throughout the lifecycle, enhance platform capabilities to fully exploit hardware performance, and expand green application scenarios across the digital economy and society.