The IKKEM Intelligent Computing Center, designed, built, and operated by the AI for Electrochemistry (AI4EC) Lab, has been named a national green data center in the public organization category for 2025. The recognition was unveiled by six national departments, including the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the National Development and Reform Commission, and the National Energy Administration.
The designation reflects the center's advanced energy efficiency, low-carbon operations, optimized layout, and high utilization of computing resources. National green data center standards assess 15 indicators — including Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE), resource utilization, and network utilization — and require institutions to perform at leading industry levels.
Operational since 2022, the center implements innovative cold-plate liquid cooling and hybrid air-liquid cooling systems, achieving single-rack power densities of up to 50 kilowatts and a PUE below 1.2. It balances high-performance computing with energy-efficient, low-carbon operation. The facility hosts 390 CPU nodes, six GPU nodes with a total of 48 A100 80G NVLink-interconnected GPUs, and two large-memory nodes, supporting AI model training, simulation, and large-scale scientific computing.
The AI4EC Lab, co-founded in 2022 by the Tan Kah Kee Innovation Laboratory of Xiamen University and the AI for Science Institute, Beijing, aims to accelerate advances in electrochemistry by integrating artificial intelligence with theoretical research. The lab develops intelligent algorithms and machine learning models to drive both fundamental innovation and practical applications in electrochemical science and engineering.
