Huawei Unveils its Grid-Interactive AIDC Strategy, Shaping the Future of the Industry

[Dongguan, China, May 19, 2026] On May 15, 2026, the 2026 Global AIDC Industry Summit & Huawei AIDC Strategy and Product Launch was held in Dongguan with the theme "Power the AI Era Forward." The summit brought together nearly 1,000 global leaders, technical experts, and core ecosystem partners from the energy, intelligent computing and carrier sectors. They shared insights on the next-generation AI data center (AIDC) architecture evolution and cutting-edge technological innovations, and witnessed the launch of Huawei's grid-interactive AIDC strategy. The sessions on AIDC power supply, AIDC liquid cooling, AI for DC operations and maintenance (O&M), and new AIDC construction mode were also held, exploring pathways to lead the industry into the AI era.

2026 Global AIDC Industry Summit & Huawei AIDC Strategy and Product Launch Ceremony

Hou Jinlong, Director of the Board of Huawei and President of Huawei Digital Power, delivered an insightful keynote speech at the event. According to Mr. Hou, the booming AI industry, widely adopted large models, and numerous AI agents are creating huge energy demands. Energy is the foundation for long-term AI development. Computing and electricity will empower each other, building an integrated framework that brings together new power systems and AI infrastructure. Grid-friendliness is vital for long-term, reliable, and stable operations. High-voltage, DC, and power-electronic architectures are critical to support ultra-high-density computing loads. Additionally, liquid cooling has become mandatory for ultra-high-density computing. Reliable liquid cooling solutions and full-lifecycle intelligent O&M are key. Moreover, the essence of AIDC is a computing power production system, where delivery speed is closely tied to business benefits and investment returns.

Hou Jinlong, Director of the Board of Huawei and President of Huawei Digital Power

Huawei Digital Power deeply integrates bit, watt, heat, and battery (4T) technologies, and focuses on key fields such as new power systems and AIDC. It has established comprehensive capabilities in renewable power generation, grid forming, high-density computing power supply, liquid cooling, and computing-electricity synergy. Amidst significant industry transformation opportunities, Huawei Digital Power is committed to becoming an AIDC innovation leader and a long-term, trusted strategic partner. By cooperating with global customers and partners, it aims to promote high-quality, sustainable, and innovative development of the AIDC industry to achieve greener watts, more tokens per watt, and lower costs per token.

Bob He, Vice President of Huawei Digital Power, delivered a keynote speech entitle "Building Grid-Interactive AIDC, Maximizing Tokens Per Watt." According to Mr. He, the global AI industry is booming, causing token demand to surge.  High-density and diversified computing poses great challenges to the power density, scale, and load fluctuation of AIDC. Moreover, the growing penetration of renewable energy intensifies power grid fluctuations, while the frequent heavy-load fluctuations of AI services further compound AIDC reliability challenges.

Bob He, Vice President of Huawei Digital Power

To address these challenges, Huawei launched the grid-interactive AIDC strategy centered on "3+1" innovations listed below. This strategy aims to develop a reliable, energy-efficient, fast-delivered, and grid-friendly AIDC solution that maximizes tokens per watt.

• Watt Innovation: Reshaping the Power Supply from the Grid to Chips. Diversified loads determine the diversity of power supply architectures. AC and DC power will coexist for a long time. Huawei will build a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) power supply architecture centered on grid-friendly uninterrupted power supply (UPS) and grid-forming energy storage system (ESS), which will evolve toward an integrated grid-forming energy router based on solid-state transformer (SST) technology. The architecture will leverage Huawei's technical expertise in power electronics, grid forming, high/low voltage, and AC/DC power to flexibly meet the high-density power supply requirements of AIDC.
• Heat Innovation: Reshaping Full-Lifecycle Thermal Management Reliability from Chips to Outdoors. The ultimate value of liquid cooling lies not in equipment cooling, but in building a full-lifecyle thermal management system. Huawei has built an innovative AI-powered MW-level liquid cooling system for efficient and reliable heat dissipation, advancing the large-scale deployment of liquid cooling from availability to long-term reliability.
• Bit Innovation: Reshaping Full-lifecycle Operations by Empowering Data Centers with AI. Digital and intelligent technologies can be applied across the entire lifecycle from design and delivery to operation, achieving full-link visibility, full-link reliability, and efficient full-lifecycle O&M.
• Construction Innovation: Reshaping the Construction Mode Through Engineering Productization, Prefabrication, and Modularization. The entire process of design, production, testing, and verification can be completed in the factory and only installation is required onsite, significantly shortening time to market, improving delivery quality, and enabling fast product replication.

Bob He noted that the upper limit of AI computing power is ultimately defined by the upper limit of energy supply — Energy as Token. In the AIDC era, the traditional PUE-centric energy efficiency evaluation system can no longer fully measure the value of AIDC. The industry needs to expand from “energy efficiency metrics” to encompass “value metrics.” Huawei proposes the TokEnergy Index — the Energy-to-Token Ratio — to measure the end-to-end conversion efficiency from energy to computing power in AIDC.

Zhu Zhaosheng, Director of Huawei Computing Strategy & Business Development Dept, delivered a keynote speech on "AI Computing Trends and Development." Mr. Zhu mentioned Huawei’s SuperPoD solution, a technology purpose-built for training large-scale AI models According to Mr. Zhu, SuperPoD aggregates as much computing power as possible, which effectively addresses the "token seesaw" challenge — achieving optimal throughput and latency for tokens. At the same time, the power per rack in SuperPoD changes dramatically. From the data center facility perspective, electricity must be supplied safely and steadily, and heat must be dissipated safely and steadily. Therefore, the power distribution and thermal design of data centers need to be adjusted accordingly.

Zhu Zhaosheng, Director of Huawei Computing Strategy & Business Development Dept

Teng Jianjun, Chief Architect of Huawei Cloud Data Center, shared Huawei Cloud's innovative practices. According to Teng, as AI advances with hyperscale, ultra-large clusters, and ultra-high-density deployment, traditional data centers can no longer evolve efficiently. To address these challenges, Huawei Cloud is building reliable, sustainable, and secure AIDC through productization and intelligence.

Teng Jianjun, Chief Architect of Huawei Cloud Data Center

In the AI era, data centers are no longer just server rooms. They are super factories that produce tokens. Standing at the turning point of industry development, Huawei Digital Power will continue to invest in fundamental technologies and develop an industry-leading grid-interactive AIDC solution to drive high-quality industry development, maximize tokens per watt, and power the AI era forward.