Chapter 431 Invest in infrastructure if you have money

I had breakfast at the hotel early the next morning, and rushed to Wuhan directly. Now there is no expressway and I can only take the national highway. It takes more than ten hours to get to Wuhan.

I set off in the morning and hoped to arrive in Wuhan in the evening. When leaving, I called Wang Chuanfu on the hotel phone. Wang Chuanfu wanted to arrange for his staff to accompany him to avoid driving fatigue, but he refused.

He didn't find it too difficult to drive for more than ten hours. It's not a big deal to find a county town to take a rest halfway, and there is no need to send someone to follow him.

But the road is not very peaceful, he basically only stops to rest in the county town, and he is always driving halfway, he will not stop casually, and he will not watch the excitement.

After 14 hours of trekking, it didn't take long before it got dark. When he finally arrived in Wuhan, he drove directly to the headquarters of Kirin Industry Group.

It is said to be their headquarters, but it is actually the headquarters of a subsidiary of Phoenix Technology Corporation. Kirin Industrial Group has no plans to build its own headquarters for the time being.

Although 10 billion yuan is a lot, in fact, it is not particularly abundant if you want to develop industries, because infrastructure construction costs a lot, and the R\u0026D and production of many new technologies also cost a lot.

When Ye Zishu came to the headquarters, he went directly to the inner hotel to be in the center. The construction specifications of the headquarters here are no lower than those of Phoenix Software.

The money Phoenix Technology earned before was basically used to build these headquarters. Although it seems that they are not doing business properly, they have nothing to do with their core business, and they can't use up so much office space in a short period of time.

But for Ye Zishu, it doesn't really matter, because in his opinion, the money earned must be spent, as long as it is not spent indiscriminately, it is worthwhile.

Although the money earned by Phoenix Technology is not comparable to that of Taiji Group, it is not small. Last year alone, it earned more than 15 billion US dollars, which is equivalent to nearly 80 billion yuan in RMB.

For the headquarters of Phoenix Software Company, the first phase only cost 5 billion yuan. Although the second phase is much larger, it is mainly residential, in addition to commercial, living and educational facilities.

The entire headquarters plan will cost about 12 billion yuan. According to this standard, 11 headquarters will need to consume 132 billion yuan.

If it was last year, Phoenix Technology would definitely not be able to support it, but this year they sold a lot of software products, and with the launch of various software in the second half of the year, the income will be even higher.

However, the capital consumption of Phoenix Technology's personnel is not high. Although the number of personnel is also increasing, the domestic talent training speed is so fast.

Growth is also limited.

Up to now, all the employees of Phoenix Technology's 11 subsidiaries are crowded in the headquarters of Phoenix Software, and it doesn't seem particularly crowded. Even Qinglong Technology can still accommodate them.

At present, the number of domestic employees under the Phoenix Technology Company is only over 30,000, which has already scoured all the software and computer talents from major domestic universities.

This year, their total number of employees can reach 40,000, which is already very good. It looks like a lot, evenly distributed among 11 subsidiaries, and the number of employees is not very high.

Therefore, Phoenix Technology has enough funds to carry out these infrastructure constructions, and the remaining money can also be used to build their cloud computing platform.

And their domestic cloud computing platform is currently built in the headquarters of each subsidiary, so that the cloud computing platform can be evenly distributed across the country to provide service support for the Internet across the country.

However, the cloud computing platform technologies previously provided by Ye Zishu are all theoretical technologies, and there is still a long way to go to transform the theory into actual products.

Before, there was no artificial intelligence to help him write codes. In order to save time, he could only provide technical theoretical support. It was impossible for him to write codes.

However, after returning, he plans to use artificial intelligence to write it himself, so as to speed up the construction of the cloud computing platform and adapt to the fast-growing Internet business.

Although the performance of Qinglong Technology's servers is equally strong, it is impossible to open up the global market in a short period of time, because the cost of service migration for each enterprise is too high.

Unless it is absolutely necessary, most companies will not use their own software services casually, which is very detrimental to the development of Qinglong Technology's server business.

Phoenix Technology's cloud computing platform has helped the development of Qinglong Technology's server business. Coupled with the demand for servers from some domestic companies, the start is not bad.

However, there is still a big gap between the servers used to build cloud computing platforms and the servers used by ordinary enterprises. The entire hardware architecture is actually like that of a supercomputer.

They will be composed of specialized computing units, storage units, and memory units, which are not mixed together. The purpose of this is to facilitate the expansion of a single unit, and it is also convenient for separate management to provide customers with different services.

In the previous life, Ye Zishu went to the server room. As long as you stay there for a while, your ears will feel that it is not your own. The noise is very loud, and it is not a place where people look forward to for a long time.

Therefore, the cloud computing platform server he provided uses immersion liquid cooling technology, and each circuit board is immersed in liquid, which requires that each board is very well sealed.

Then through the liquid circulation system, the heat emitted by the machine is taken out, and then circulated back after cooling, so that there is almost no sound and it is very quiet.

In fact, liquid cooling technology saves a lot of energy compared with air cooling. If the heat taken out can be used reasonably, the loss caused by energy consumption can be further reduced.

For example, in the future, he really plans to come up with thermoelectric conversion materials, and then directly press this device in the cooling link to generate electricity from the heat emitted, and use this electricity to turn back to support the operation of these servers.

If it is air-cooled, it is difficult to collect the dissipated heat in a concentrated manner, and it can only be wasted. However, although liquid cooling can reduce energy consumption, it is also very limited. The main purpose is to be quiet.

Each of their headquarters has a data center building with a very large area. The building design inside has considered liquid cooling design at the beginning, and it is very convenient to build a liquid cooling computing platform.

At present, there are not many Internet users in China. They only plan to build two cloud computing service centers, one in the south and one in the north, to provide unified services to the outside world.

One is Phoenix Software's headquarters in the capital, and the other chooses Changsha headquarters, both of which can basically cover the domestic Internet market's demand for cloud computing platforms.

In foreign countries, it is the first batch of 10 cloud computing service centers to be built, which are distributed in key regions on all continents, and provide cloud computing services to global users uniformly.

However, in the early stage, it may only be used by themselves. At present, Internet content is not particularly prosperous. They themselves are the main Internet content providers and occupy a very large market share.

However, foreign Internet content is still mainly at the level of official websites, and the official websites of governments and academic institutions are still the main ones, and the number of official websites of enterprises is not particularly high.

For example, the government's official website may not trust Phoenix Technology's cloud computing platform at present. This requires a gradual adaptation process, and there is no need to be particularly anxious.

At present, the main task of Phoenix Technology is to enrich the service content of the cloud computing platform and do a good job of basic work for the upcoming surge of users.

The investment scale of each cloud computing center is not very large at present, each only intends to invest 2 billion yuan, and the total cost is about 24 billion yuan.

In the future, we will gradually increase investment as business development requires, because at that time the performance of the hardware will be higher, and even if the price does not decrease, the unit data processing cost will also drop sharply.

At least the current scale of investment can meet the needs of global businesses. As long as the technology is mature, it is not difficult to build and expand the cloud computing center, and it does not take much time.

The current problem is still in the implementation. The leaf book only provides the framework information. How to do it needs to be explored internally, which will take a long time.

Ye Zishu plans to do some more specific work after returning this time, to speed up the construction of their cloud platform and reduce the incubation time of the cloud platform.

Entering the internal hotel, there are not many service personnel. Just like the headquarters of the Phoenix Software Company, the hotel service personnel only need to maintain a basic number to maintain the operation, which is not as complicated as a commercial hotel.

Unexpectedly, in the middle of the night, the hotel became lively. It turned out that the R\u0026D personnel of the Kirin Industrial Group came back from get off work one after another and stayed in the hotel.