From November 20th to 21st, 2025, the CDCC2025 China Data Center Code Summit was successfully held in Beijing. As a key industry event in the data center sector during the computing power era, the summit focused on technological innovation, standard system construction, and green low-carbon development, attracting experts, scholars, and enterprise representatives from all links of the industrial chain to gather and exchange ideas. CIMC Digital Power was invited to participate and shared professional insights on topics such as prefabricated cooling sources, modular systems, and operational reliability at the roundtable forum.
During the roundtable discussion, Gary Zhu, R&D and Design Director of CIMC Digital Power, pointed out that the industry practice of diesel generator sets has provided ideas for the development of prefabricated cooling sources for data centers: The pallet modules composed of core components such as generators, engines, and controllers have formed standardized operations in the industry, which are highly consistent with the prefabrication and modularization concepts pursued by prefabricated cooling sources. To continuously improve design efficiency, supply chain stability, and delivery speed of prefabricated cooling sources for data centers in the future, the mature prefabrication experience of the diesel generator industry can be learned from to accelerate the formation of a standardized and combinable module system. This view was highly recognized by the participating guests.
Gary further emphasized that promoting the module standardization of prefabricated cooling sources will become an important path to achieve cost reduction, efficiency improvement, and accelerated delivery. On the premise of ensuring performance, free combination of standard modules can meet the requirements of different scales and loads, which not only addresses personalized needs but also improves the overall efficiency of design and engineering.
On the operational side, Gary put forward a further viewpoint: "Absolute reliability" depends on the quality of the product itself, while the future industry's room for improvement will be more focused on "relative reliability"—that is, the ability to quickly recover after a failure occurs.
To this end, CIMC Digital Power proposed a path to improve relative reliability through modularization: By standardizing the modules in the cooling station system, "spare parts" are upgraded to "standby modules". When a device fails, there is no need for precise positioning or on-site disassembly and repair; instead, the functional module can be replaced to quickly resume operation, and the device can be independently inspected and maintained afterward.
With the combination of early design optimization, module-level "online hot standby" can be realized in the future, significantly improving system availability and business continuity. Compared with the high-complexity redundancy design of the entire cooling station, the functional modularization path is more in line with the development trend of prefabrication, and has clear value in improving operational efficiency, reliability, and maintenance speed.
During the exhibition, representatives of CIMC Digital Power also conducted in-depth exchanges with industry authoritative institutions, leading enterprises, and industrial chain partners, reaching multiple cooperation consensuses on technical standard coordination and cross-scenario solution innovation.
As AI technology iterates rapidly and computing power demand continues to grow explosively, data center construction is shifting from project-based to product-based, and from complex engineering to a standardized system. CIMC Digital Power will continue to explore in areas such as prefabricated cooling sources, modular design, and industrialized production, and work with industry partners to promote the high-quality development of new-type computing infrastructure.
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